http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2008, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Fri, 16 May 2008 17:25:39 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/19724/MySQL_Remains_Fully_Functional_and_Open_Source/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19724/MySQL_Remains_Fully_Functional_and_Open_Source/ When Sun announced it would offer certain plugins and features for enterprise customers only, and maybe even make them closed-source, the open source community was up in arms. It seems that MySQL and Sun have listened to the criticism, as these plans are now off the table. In fact, these plans did not originate within Sun in the first place. Thu, 08 May 2008 19:13:59 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19525/Oracle_Expands_Its_Linux_Base/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19525/Oracle_Expands_Its_Linux_Base/ "So how is Oracle doing with its Oracle Unbreakable Linux? Pretty well. According to Monica Kumar, senior director Linux and open source product marketing at Oracle, there are now 2000 customers for Oracle's Linux. Those customers will now be getting a bonus from Oracle: free clustering software." Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:01:46 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19207/Firebird_2008_Roadmap_Published/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19207/Firebird_2008_Roadmap_Published/ The Firebird RDBMS 2008 Roadmap is now publicly available. During this year, Firebird users can expect two final releases (2.1 and 2.5) and the first alpha of FB 3. Many new features are planned, as described in the roadmap. In addition, RC1 of 2.1 has been released. Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:14:15 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News Carlos H. Cantu http://www.osnews.com/story/19170/Sun_Buys_MySQL_AB/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19170/Sun_Buys_MySQL_AB/ MySQL AB and Sun have announced that MySQL has been bought by Sun. "Sun Microsystems today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world's fastest growing open source databases for approximately USD 1 billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun's position in enterprise IT to now include the USD 15 billion database market. Today's announcement reaffirms Sun's position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor." More here. Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:34:04 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 57 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News BluenoseJake http://www.osnews.com/story/18527/MySQL_Ends_Distribution_of_Enterprise_Source_Tarballs/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18527/MySQL_Ends_Distribution_of_Enterprise_Source_Tarballs/ "MySQL quietly let slip that it would no longer be distributing the MySQL Enterprise Server source as a tarball, not quite a year after the company announced a split between its paid and free versions. While the Enterprise Server code is still under the GNU General Public License, MySQL is making it harder for non-customers to access the source code." Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:04:39 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 32 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News wakeupneo http://www.osnews.com/story/18120/Size_Isnt_Everything_for_the_Modest_Creator_of_SQLite/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18120/Size_Isnt_Everything_for_the_Modest_Creator_of_SQLite/ "In a world of people obsessed by turning the tiniest idea into something profitable, Dr Richard Hipp's best-known software stands out for two reasons - he actively disclaims copyright in it; and at a time when multi-megabyte installations are booming, he has a self-imposed limit on the size of his product: 250KB. And he's stuck to both aims. 'I think we've got 15 kilobytes of spare space,' he says of the headroom left in the code." Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:37:11 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 15 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News alcibiades http://www.osnews.com/story/17312/SQL_Server_2005_Gets_Second_Service_Pack/ http://www.osnews.com/story/17312/SQL_Server_2005_Gets_Second_Service_Pack/ Microsoft has released a second free service pack for its popular SQL Server 2005 database application. The update makes SQL Server 2005 compatible with Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system and Office 2007 suite, and adds a number of data compression, manageability and interoperability enhancements. Microsoft has also changed the terms under which SQL Server 2005 can be run using virtualisation software. Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:48:51 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 3 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News george http://www.osnews.com/story/17266/Paper:_Database_Benchmark/ http://www.osnews.com/story/17266/Paper:_Database_Benchmark/ DevLoop has just published a free paper (US mirror) [zipped .pdf] benchmarking some popular database systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, DB2, Informix, Sybase SQL Anywhere, on Linux using JDBC. The focus here is on non-real setups where we can analyze the individual aspects that might affect system performance. The code is available (GPL) so that anyone can reproduce the results. Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:30:55 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 16 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News Antoine Martin http://www.osnews.com/story/17168/Unlovable_Linux_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/17168/Unlovable_Linux_/ "At the time, most of us thought Oracle undercutting Red Hat's Linux business with its Unbreakable Linux was a big deal. Would customers flock to Oracle's cut-rate version of RHEL? Would Red Hat be pounded by Larry Ellison's minions? After a few months, the answers appear to be: No, it wasn't a big deal; and no; and no." Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:53:45 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 24 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News WillM http://www.osnews.com/story/16974/Oracle_Plugs_51_Security_Flaws/ http://www.osnews.com/story/16974/Oracle_Plugs_51_Security_Flaws/ Oracle on Tuesday released fixes for 51 vulnerabilities that affect its software products. The update is part of the company's quarterly patch cycle. Oracle preannounced its patch release Thursday, when, for the first time, it published an advance notification so customers could plan ahead to apply the fixes. Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:04:46 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 1 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News MaxxTotal http://www.osnews.com/story/16870/MySQL_Sticks_with_Current_GPL_for_Now/ http://www.osnews.com/story/16870/MySQL_Sticks_with_Current_GPL_for_Now/ Open-source database company MySQL has decided to stick to the current General Public License rather than move to an upcoming revision, pending broader industry acceptance. MySQL, one of the most successful commercial ventures to use the GPL, has modified its license terms from 'version 2 or later' to 'version 2' only, according to Kaj Arno, the company's vice president of community. Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:15:36 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 56 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News elsewhere http://www.osnews.com/story/16711/MySQL_Quietly_Drops_Support_for_Most_Linux_Distributions/ http://www.osnews.com/story/16711/MySQL_Quietly_Drops_Support_for_Most_Linux_Distributions/ MySQL quietly deprecated support for most Linux distributions on October 16, when its 'MySQL Network' support plan was replaced by 'MySQL Enterprise.' MySQL now supports only two Linux distributions - Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. We learned of this when MySQL declined to sell us support for some new Debian-based servers. Our sales rep 'found out from engineering that the current Enterprise offering is no longer supported on Debian OS.' We were told that 'Generic Linux' in MySQL's list of supported platforms means 'generic versions of the implementations listed above'; not support for Linux in general. Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:43:59 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 36 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News trinitrotolueen http://www.osnews.com/story/16641/PostgreSQL_8.2_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/16641/PostgreSQL_8.2_Released/ PostgreSQL 8.2 is now released (sources, binaries) while you can read the release notes here. Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:40:14 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) Databases 25 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News http://www.osnews.com/story/16555/Microsoft_Beats_Oracle_in_Security_Showdown/ http://www.osnews.com/story/16555/Microsoft_Beats_Oracle_in_Security_Showdown/ Microsoft is beating Oracle hands down with the security of its database, according to a new report. David Litchfield, a security researcher with NGS Software, published a whitepaper entitled Which database is more secure? Oracle vs. Microsoft on 21 November comparing the number of software vulnerabilities patched by both vendors in their respective products in the past six years. Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:48:26 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 25 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News jayson.knight http://www.osnews.com/story/16530/Oracles_Indemnification_Offerings_for_Linux/ http://www.osnews.com/story/16530/Oracles_Indemnification_Offerings_for_Linux/ "I had a few minutes to burn today, so I did what I'm sure you were doing: I read the Oracle Enterprise Linux Services Agreement. It's funny what you find when you start digging around in the legalese that governs the Big Announcement that Oracle made. It makes 'Unbreakable Linux' look a little flimsy." Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:08:26 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 31 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News Neti