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Software Industry Continues to Consolidate

As Zack reported, Sun is buying MySQL for ~$800M plus $200M in options. Interestingly, the MySQL acquisition represents 8% of Sun’s current market cap (~$13 Bil). While I’m happy for the MySQL team, my views on Sun’s OSS “strategy” are mixed at best.

Authorities, Language, And Relational Databases

Why does Google sponsor spam and tell people to blend their AdSense ads, but try to control other link sales?

GData, MySQL, and the Future of on-line Databases

In reading Richard MacManus' Why Google is extending RSS, I couldn't help feeling that he was missing the point a bit.

McObject Releases Database Combo

Data management company McObject (I'm storin' it!) has a new embedded systems tool combo. The new version of eXtremeDB in-memory embedded database comes with Accelerated Technology's Nucleus real-time operating system (RTOS), a side and a drink. Okay, no side and drink.

Screening Air Travelers Via Commercial Databases Dropped

The Transportation Security Administration said they plan to have their computerized passenger screening program ready later this year but it won't include the hot-button, commercially-maintained databases, so denigrated by privacy groups.

Databases How We Love to Hate Them!

You've finally created databases that you can actually use to store and manipulate all your critical data. That's great news and quite an accomplishment. But in your rush to get your employees to start entering information into these databases, you skipped the training process and let them go at it alone.

Synchronize multiple MySQL Databases with PHP

PIM Team Case Study

Embedded Databases

An Embedded database is a specific database genus that does not run as a separate process, instead, it is directly linked ("embedded") into the application. Herein, the database is integrated into the application and the end-user has little or no knowledge that the database exists. Embedded databases are sometimes referred to as "fire and forget" or "implement and forget" databases, since they require no or minimal database administration.

Crystal Reports - Geterogeneus databases: SQL Server, Oracle, Unidata, Btrieve tips for developers

Crystal Reports is the most flexible tool on the market and it has market recognition.

Using JavaScript Arrays for the Product Databases in E-Commerce, Storefront Applications

A key ingredient in any e-commerce storefront application is the database. This is where information unique to a particular store is archived. One grouping of unique information is product data.