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Article | 9/04/2010 Oracle chief architect to reveal MySQL strategy
MySQL users are set to receive fresh information about Oracle's road map for the open-source database during a keynote address by Chief Corporate Arch...
Article | 10/03/2010 Rackspace hires to align with MySQL offshoot
A number of former Sun Microsystems employees who worked on Drizzle, an offshoot of the MySQL open-source database, have ended up at cloud infrastruct...
Article | 24/02/2010 Twitter growth prompts switch from MySQL to 'NoSQL' database
Ryan King, an engineer at Twitter, today told the blog MyNoSQL that the social networking company plans to move from MySQL to the Cassandra database f...
Article | 4/02/2010 IBM to debut info management software
Next month, IBM will release a beta version of a software application designed to keep track of how information flows across different systems, sendin...
Article | 28/01/2010 Sybase joins in-memory database fray
The new version of Sybase's flagship database system software, released Wednesday, will be the first version that can be run entirely within working m...
Article | 21/01/2010 European Union clears Oracle's purchase of Sun
The European Commission granted Oracle an unconditional approval to take over Sun Microsystems on Thursday, following a controversial and drawn out ex...
Article | 15/12/2009 Oracle's pledges on MySQL are 'purely cosmetic', say critics
Oracle's latest commitments designed to address the European Commission's concerns regarding its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and the MySQL databas...
Article | 11/12/2009 Microsoft joins Swiss vendor to push SQL Server in banks
Microsoft and Swiss banking systems provider Temenos have joined forces to push SQL Server in the banking sector, the companies said on Thursday.
Article | 26/11/2009 Crunching data on the cheap
Data-warehousing software systems are expensive, but many enterprises have nonetheless been willing to dig deep, betting that analytics will provide n...
Article | 4/11/2009 Sybase smooths enterprise path for iPhones
Sybase is extending its Afaria mobile-device management platform and database software to the Apple iPhone, taking advantage of new enterprise feature...
Article | 21/10/2009 Richard Stallman joins call for Oracle to divest MySQL
Oracle must be stopped from taking over MySQL, according to Richard Stallman, a developer and prominent activist for free software.
Article | 20/10/2009 MySQL cofounder says Oracle should sell database
Oracle should resolve antitrust concerns over its acquisition of Sun Microsystems by selling open-source database MySQL to a suitable third party, its...
Article | 7/10/2009 Former DuPont researcher hit with federal data theft charges
A former research scientist at DuPont USA who is <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137780/DuPont_sues_Chinese_scientist_for_trade_secre...
Article | 4/09/2009 EC opens deeper probe of Oracle-Sun merger
The European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into Oracle's planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Thursday, citing concerns abo...
Article | 20/08/2009 Oracle 11g R2 database release coming in September
Oracle is planning to release a long-awaited update to its flagship database in September, according to a source with knowledge of its plans.