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- What does IBM mean for an open source start-up?
- What does IBM mean for an open source start-up?Minor correction: Ingres PostgresDana,Despite the common origins at Cal and similar names, Ingres and Postgres are different code bases. There's a good description of this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL. I appreciate your active coverage of the rebirth of openness in the...
- Tags: Databases, Ingres, open-source start-up, Postgres, open source, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- PostgreSQL left out in database brouhaha
- PostgreSQL left out in database brouhahaTalk about bias ntntThe reason PosgreSQL is left out...Dana, I think the reason that you'll see PosgreSQL left out of the database brouhaha is because the conversation this week is focused on the enterprise. While PostgreSQL may have great adoption for deployment within the...
- Tags: Databases, PostgreSQL, Postgres, Ingres, database
- Discussion threads 2008-01-18
- What do the database deals mean?
- What do the database deals mean?Postgres is the future of...open source databases.YOu can bet that...Oracle and Sun will be looking for ways to make money on their acquisitions. The most obvious way would be to play games with the open source products such that using them would eventually steer...
- Tags: Databases, UNIX, Postgres, MySQL, open source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Ingres, PostgreSQL, database
- Discussion threads 2008-01-17
- Ingres prepares for assault on Oracle's turf
- Ingres prepares for assault on Oracle's turfI hope them the best but ...... do not be surprised if within 3-5 years this same guy is announcing bankruptcy or firings, etc.Go Ingres Go !!!I bow down to the King of Databases. The creator of MySql and Postgres. Go get em!! I...
- Tags: Databases, Oracle Corp., Relational Model, Ingres, Postgres
- Discussion threads 2006-03-22
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- SaaS market will 'collapse' in two years
- SaaS market will 'collapse' in two yearsHe doesn't get itSo to summarize Debes (who comes off a little like Vinny from da mob or a coke dealer - his words, not mine):(1) SaaS and Cloud computing as a delivery vehicle has been tried before and therefore will fail (like all...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, software-as-a-service, SaaS IS, SaaS Model, Lawson Software Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality
- Guest editorial by Emma McGrattan In the current economic climate, businesses of every size are looking to reduce their spending wherever possible. Open source software, which has no upfront licensing fees, is one way of achieving significant savings. However, in order to protect their...
- Tags: Software, Security, Open Source, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...
- Tags: Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Ingres gives Fortify security study a good fisking
- Open source projects in Fortify's Open Review report fewer defects per thousand lines of code than proprietary products in the same review. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Ingres, Databases, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Hammering at cost with open source
- Hammering at cost with open sourceThis just shows...the strength of open source in providing services. It is better than proprietary all the way around. They may stick with proprietary Oracle on the data base side but postgres or mysql could do the job just fine.In todays IT environment, there...
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Postgres Plus (zip)
- Postgres Plus is a distribution of PostgreSQL that contains the following additional features integrated in a convenient installation package: Postgres Studio for administration, Procedural Language Debugger, Geospatial extensions, GridSQL Parallel Query, MySQL Migration utility, Slony-II for replication, and pgmemcached for application scaling. The package contains both BSD and GPLv2 licensed...
- Tags: EnterpriseDB, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-06-24
- Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?
- Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?Why can't you have a five eprson team iplement UK health recordIf you design UK, Canada, or any centralized health system country's health record system, you will have to insure access to tens of millions of persons worth of records on a 24/7 basis...
- Tags: Government, E-health, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, bureaucracy, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?
- Britain's national plan to bring order and interoperability to the patient records and operations of the national health service was going to cost about £1.2bn and be an enormous business and political success by early 1998. Ten years later it's widely expected to be a continuing £13bn pound...
- Tags: Agency, Health Care, Bureaucracy, StarOffice, Open Source, Advertising & Promotion, Office Suites, Software, Marketing, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- News to know: Netflix; Google Health; Storm Worm; Fixing Vista
- Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: The Storm Worm would love to infect you Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7: The information lockdown continues Microsoft releases Virtual PC 2007 SP1 Microsoft: Half of Exchange inboxes to be Microsoft-hosted in five years...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Google Inc., Facebook, Microsoft Windows Vista, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Worm, Vertical Industries, Microsoft Windows, Benefits, Healthcare, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Ingres brings OpenROAD tool for rapid DB apps development to GPL
- Ingres Corp. is hoping for strong community involvement with its Open ROAD rapid application development RAD tool by taking it to GPL v2 release. The Redwood City, Calif., open source database management company has made the new release available on its Web site and said it...
- Tags: GPL, Tool, Ingres, 4GL OpenROAD, OpenROAD Application, Databases, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up
- OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows upOpenSolaris at ZDNet open sourceI just posted a piece abou tthis at Open Source http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2387 but I was not under the impression that this is aimed at the desktop market at all -- only the server side.RE: OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants...
- Tags: UNIX, OpenSolaris, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Wants
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- Kickfire: MySQL data box for the rest of us
- Given all the various technology news in the last two weeks, it would have been relatively easy to overlook a press release from a small startup called Kickfire, which produces an appliance to run MySQL applications. Snore. Yet another dime a dozen appliance vendor, which will probably...
- Tags: Performance, MySQL, I/O, Kickfire, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- RPG, PHP, and history
- RPG, PHP, and historyIf it works for you, use it - but it doesnt work for me.If it works for you, and especially if it has an elegant simplicity, then go for it.However,[i]So what’s the model? simple: business applications are user interfaces to business data.[/i]I think that in many cases...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, Databases, RPG, PHP
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- Did Sun just make mySQL closed source?
- Did Sun just make mySQL closed source?Free users are getting stable codewhat kind of coment is that ?Supposed to imply that the open source edition is the best one, while the enterprise edition is bloated with un industrialized new features ? In what kind of world are you leaving were...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Sun/MySQL, MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., GPL
- Discussion threads 2008-04-17
- Did Sun just make mySQL closed source?
- Sun's happy talk at its mySQL shindig this week masked a grimmer reality. In the future cool new features of mySQL like online backup will, when written by Sun, first go only to paying customers. This does not, as some have said, make mySQL Enterprise closed...
- Tags: MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Open source ERP rivals Compiere, OpenBravo expand partner networks
- Two leading open source ERP players are working to expand their solutions and partner ecosystems. On Wednesday, Compiere, a Redwood Shores, Calif. company whose management is comprised of many ex Oracle execs such as President and CEO Don Klaiss, announced an upgrade of its ERP and CRM...
- Tags: Network, ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
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