Internet giant Google is migrating from Oracle's MySQL databases to MariaDB, the fork from MySQL established by its co-founder, Monty Widenius. The news was broken by Jeremy Cole, a senior systems engineer at Google at the Extremely Large ...
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The creator of popular open-source database MySQL, Michael "Monty" Widenius, wants to see the now-Oracle-owned product disappear from the earth within the next five years" - displaced by his own alternative, MariaDB. Speaking to Computing ...
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Software AG has picked up cloud PaaS (platform-as-a-service) vendor LongJump in a bid to give small and medium-sized companies a way to rapidly develop applications with less involvement from IT. Terms of the deal, which was announced ...
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Open source database companies SkySQL and Monty Program - creators of MariaDB - have announced a merger that will see "key members" of the original MySQL team reunite to create what the two companies are calling a "next generation ...
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Oracle released?128 patches on Tuesday,?covering security weaknesses that affect "hundreds" of its products. Four of the patches concern components of Oracle's flagship database server, and all of them can be exploited by a remote ...
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The low-power capabilities of ARM-based processors have created high expectations for their use in servers, but one of Dell's top engineers said they are unlikely to take off until 64-bit versions hit the market. "I don't think you'll see ...
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The low-power capabilities of ARM-based processors have created high expectations for their use in servers, but one of Dell's top engineers said they are unlikely to take off until 64-bit versions hit the market. "I don't think you'll see ...
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Open-source business intelligence vendor Jaspersoft has launched what it claims is the first fully featured pay-by-the-hour BI service in the cloud. The ability to offer periodic subscriptions in this way is down to the cloud platform on ...
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It was just last week that Fedora Linux 18 "Spherical Cow" made its official debut, but since then the Red Hat-supported distribution has been all over the news for a variety of reasons, not all of them complimentary. First came the news ...
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Oracle released two out-of-band patches on Sunday for vulnerabilities in its Java programming language, both of which pose a high risk to users browsing the web. The company's speed in issuing patches may be due to part that exploit code ...
Oracle is preparing to ship 86 patches covering security vulnerabilities in a wide span of its products, with 18 of the fixes aimed at the MySQL database alone. Two of the MySQL vulnerabilities can be exploited by an attacker remotely ...
IDG News Service - Oracle is updating its widely used open source MySQL database, and a range of associated products, in order to meet the increasing demands of Web users. In the past decade, "The Web has transitioned from just serving ...
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Rackspace was one of the first players in the cloud arena. The company recognized early that enterprises wanted faster, simpler ways to spin up and spin down servers. If the bosses are going to be fickle and impulsive, there will always be ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle is planning to unveil new migration tools that help customers port applications written for SAP's Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise product over to Oracle's own flagship database and Exadata database machine, ...
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To generate interest from developers, Akiban Technologies has released as open source its flagship database software, called Akiban Server. The company also released a connector for replicating a MySQL database within Akiban, and forged a ...
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