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Frugal Tech Show: Ubuntu, Swine Flu, Windows 7, MariaDB and MySQL

Monty Program AB is the home of MariaDB, a fork of the MySQL project by the original founders. Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, the effect of Twitter on Swine Flu news dissemination, Windows XP compatibility/virtualization in Windows 7,...

Tags: Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows 7, MySQL, Founder, Monty Program AB, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-27

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Is MySQL done under Oracle or is there a fork in its future?

With Oracle acquiring Sun Microsystems, it also acquires MySQL, the poster child for open-source applications. (Not to mention Solaris, which Sun says is a larger Linux distribution than Red Hat.) Vivek Ranadive, CEO of Tibco Software, says the term "Oracle and open source has always been an...

Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-04-23

Kickfire: Released for all the right reasons, but with the worst timing?

Kickfire's hardware-accelerated MySQL appliance blows the doors off monster Oracle database servers in equivalent TPC-H benchmarks in a tiny fraction of the cost, space, storage and power usage.  Last week, during their press briefings the future of the company looked bright indeed. There's only one...

Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Kickfire, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-21