(Martin LaMonica) Three open-source projects are teaming up to create an alternative to software-integration products from IBM and other heavyweights. Those involved in talks told CNET News.com that the partnership calls for close technical ties and code sharing among ServiceMix, Apache Synapse

(Carla Schroder) Last week we learned how to create and populate a user authentication database. Today we’ll dig into making changes, making backups, connecting to remote MySQL servers and plugging MySQL in to servers like Postfix and Samba.

(Jennifer Mears) Like many companies, National Semiconductor is looking for ways to cut costs and has Linux and open-source high on its list. While the Santa Clara, Calif., company already is making the move to Linux, the big project this year is to take a close look at open-source databases to

(Kevin Hemenway) In our “Getting Started” part of this series, I was a little too fast and a little too slow. Like a confused lover, I went too fast because I didn’t want to bore you with protracted explanations and foreplay about topics we may both already know. On the other hand, it was a little t

There are now two large classes of database users falling outside of the traditional largeenterprise database customer — loosely, “Low-IT” and “high-flexibility” organizations. Table 1 shows some of the key database characteristics that these organizations seek. (pdf)

Registrations are now open to the first Open Source Database Conference 2005 to be held at Frankfurt on November 8th and 9th, 2005. Held in parallel to the International PHP Conference 2005 (Fall Edition), this conference promises to be a treat for database developers, database administrators, IT Ar

(Joshua D. Drake) As an open source database, PostgreSQL has one of the largest libraries of Application Programmable Interfaces (APIs) available, letting you access it easily from various languages. One such language is Python, which happens to be one of my favorite languages; I use it for almost a

(Barbara Gengler) Three vendors intend to shake up the corporate database market, competing in what is quickly turning into an open source arena.

(James F. Koopmann) Part of managing a database is the ability to create tables and modify tables. This becomes incresingly difficult as the number of database you manage increases across vendor offerings and versions. I even forget the specifics of Oracle that I have been working with for about 15

At most companies, it would be time to call it a day if network traffic spiked to 20 times normal levels. Not so for Nine Systems, where a 20-fold burst in traffic is just another day at the office. The intense traffic demands at Nine Systems arise because the San Diego–based outfit is pushing the