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Many open-sourcers back an Oracle takeover of MySQL

Surprisingly, many members of the open source community are not opposing the shift in MySQL ownership that would come with the close of Oracle's $7.4 billion deal to acquire current owner Sun Microsystems Inc., contending that it would not wound the open source database.

posted by ITworld staff | News | Business | Open Source | Software | 10/28/09 at 3:40 pm | database, MySQL, Oracle, Sun


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Amazon slashes cloud prices, offers new database service

Amazon cuts the price of Web-based virtual servers and debuts a cloud-based relational database.

posted by ITworld staff | News | Hardware | Server and data center | Virtualization | 10/27/09 at 1:39 pm | Amazon EC2, cloud computing, database


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White Paper | Business | Business intelligence | IT management/strategy | Server and data center | 10/15/09 at 9:32 am | applications, database, java, Oracle


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EnterpriseDB cites enterprise capabilities in open source database

The company's Postgres Plus Standard Server 8.4 features an updating service, a migration tool for Oracle databases, and a certification suite

posted by ITworld staff | News | Open Source | Software | 10/14/09 at 2:10 pm | database, EnterpriseDB, PostgreSQL


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