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Blog-City uses open source MySQL

In Depth
Author: Arif Mohamed
Date: 24 January 2008

Like many organisations, Blog-City relies heavily on its database for its daily business. But interestingly, Blog-City has chosen to underpin its business with the free and open source database MySQL, which is entirely community supported.

Oracle repositions itself as a business systems provider

In Depth
Author: Cath Jennings
Date: 22 January 2008

A key plank of Oracle's strategy for growth over the next few years is to reposition itself as a strategic partner rather than simply remain a technology supplier in key enterprise accounts.

Sun buys MySQL for £500m

News
Author: Cliff Saran
Date: 16 January 2008

Sun has acquired the open source database MySQL for £500m, in a bid to establish a foothold in the database market and offer users open source database tools to compliment its growing family of open source products.

Hot skills: DB 9.5

Opinion
Author: Nick Langley
Date: 03 January 2008

IBM's DB2 is a relational database management system (RDBMS), widely used in enterprises.

Hot skills: PostgreSQL offers opportunities in many languages

In Depth
Author: Nick Langley
Date: 18 December 2007

What is it? PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management package. It is one of the pillars of Sun Microsystems' alternative to...

Alcoa adopts Oracle consolidated global database

News
Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 21 November 2007

Aluminium supplier Alcoa has upgraded its multi-terabyte data warehouse to Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters to improve efficiency.

Hot skills: cut costs and coding time with Database for Objects

News
Author: Nick Langley
Date: 19 November 2007

Db4o (Database for Objects) is an open source object database for Java and .net developers. It is claimed to be the only database that is native to both Java and .net.

Oracle patch update to contain 51 flaw fixes

News
Author: SearchSecurity.com Staff
Date: 15 October 2007

Oracle's Critical Patch Update will address 51 fixes, addressing critical holes in Oracle database 10g, Application Server, E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft Enterprise software.

Data migration product specifications

In Depth
Date: 03 July 2007

Part of the Tiered Storage Buying guide focusing on product specifications for data migration tools.

How Oracle skills can be the base for a good career

News analysis
Author: Nick Langley
Date: 27 February 2007

Oracle is a relational database management system that runs on more than 80 platforms. The Oracle database is Oracle's flagship product: the current version, Oracle10g, was introduced in 2005.

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