(Sam Varghese) At least one open source software project is still using the proprietary BitKeeper source code management system, after it went commercial and stopped producing a free version.

(Mark Brunelli) Oracle Corp.’s acquisition of Innobase OY is largely an effort to disrupt rival database vendor MySQL AB and is a testament to the growing momentum of open source software (OSS), the outspoken president and CEO of SleepyCat Software said in an interview. (R)

(Peter Yared) Welcome to LAMP 101. Two years ago, the general IT population still didn’t know exactly what LAMP was; it was a well-kept “hobby” in the dark corners of enterprise development. Although it still hasn’t reached the height of cocktail conversation, LAMP has come a long way, building

Most Americans are aware that every 10 years, the United States Census Bureau conducts a massive Census of the 105 million U.S. households to collect updated national demographic information. The Census data determines critical population information such as size, growth and geographic densities, as

(Jan Stafford) Widespread corporate adoption of Web-based applications is a sure bet for the future, and that future will also bring a more scalable and user-friendly MySQL, said MySQL AB CEO Marten Mickos. In part two of our conversation with him, Mickos discusses those trends, as well as the p

(Jay Lyman) When faced with a pay-now or wait-for-functionality choice, several companies that use PostgreSQL recently pooled their resources and paid for development of faster, deeper indexing capabilities in the open source database.

Which are the main differences between the open source and the commercial version of MySql 5.0?

Data type selection plays an important role in how efficiently your relational database management system functions, and so it is important to be fully aware of the options available to you, and to select the most appropriate data type for your storage needs. This download outlines the most importan

(Maria Winslow) What is the difference between open source and open standards? Which is more important to interoperability in enterprise IT environments? (R)

With the recent release and rapid growth of MySQL 5.0 in the market, many corporations, government agencies, educational institutions, and others to think about migrating away from their expensive and proprietary database vendors to an open source platform. Of course, a migration from any database i