Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, HP CTO Phil McKinney, Ubuntu technical architect Allison Randal and Marten Mickos of MySQL and Eucalyptus will keynote LinuxCon.
MySQL architect Brian Aker discusses the future of database storage engines, Amazon's Web services, the next generation of distributed revision control and the economics of creating open source software.
Oracle has added additional commercial extensions to the enterprise edition of its open-source MySQL database, further differentiating it from the community version available to anyone at no charge.
A petition launched in December by MySQL creator Michael 'Monty' Widenius to "save" the open-source database from Oracle has quickly gained momentum, collecting nearly 17,000 signatures.
French ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Nexedi made a public bid Monday to take over stewardship of the open-source MySQL database from Sun Microsystems, offering a symbolic €1 in return.
Amazon Web Services has upgraded the Linux image that runs in its cloud to include newer versions of Tomcat, MySQL and Python, while at the same time allowing enterprises to stay on older versions, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday.
Michael "Monty" Widenius, original developer of the open-source database MySQL, put a damper on Sun Microsystems' recent release of MySQL 5.1 with his now-infamous Nov. 29 blog post trashing the company's decision to give the update a "generally available" designation.
The archetypal MySQL database chugs along in the server room of a Web 2.0 start-up, powering a small but promising Web site. In fact, a quarter of the 12 million MySQL installations are data warehouses doing business intelligence and analytics for companies.
* Dr. Internet columnist Steve Blass discusses the differences between MySQL character data types
* Help Desk columnist Ron Nutter discusses the costs of data across a WAN
Open source IPS maker Sourcefire is now a publicly-traded company, with its IPO last week on the Nasdaq. Meanwhile, reports say that open source database company MySQL is thinking about a similar move.
Open source software continues to grow in popularity among IT executives, with technologies such as Linux, TomCat and MySQL. Yet the concept of open source and enterprise management hadn't seen a lot of action until the past couple of years.
What commands would I use from the MySQL command line to recreate a large database table's structure without having to type it all back in through the MySQL Administrator or PHP-MyAdmin graphical user interface?
I have a MySQL database that needs to be converted or exported to a Microsoft Access database. I can connect to the MySQL database with Access using Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), but when I try to save or export, the MySQL data Access wants me to e
Last week, MySQL Enterprise was launched. It's a subscription service to help administrators run the open source MySQL database more smoothly and efficiently.
Sun Microsystems on Friday announced a database and application-server package that allows unlimited deployments for a fixed annual rate, positioning the offer as a lower-cost alternative to competing vendors like Oracle.
So, where was I? Oh yes, last week I was wrestling with hosting providers to get the right version of PHP and playing with WAMP and XAMPP to test PHP-based applications. If my comment about “what was I doing” sounds like I’ve lost track, it’s true, and I’ll come to why in a moment.