(Arjen Lentz) João Prado Maia is a Senior Software Engineer for the Internal IT department of MySQL AB. We were lucky to catch him in the wild a few years ago with his project Eventum, which we will talk about more also

(Robert McMillan) A looming deadline following a dispute between two prominent open-source developers has forced database vendor MySQL AB to consider changing how it develops its software, and it will also force scores of other open-source projects to consider a similar move within the month.

(Vikram Vaswani) If you ever wanted to start using the open source MySQL server application on your computer, this article is for you. It will show you how to obtain, install, configure, and test the MySQL server on your system, whether you are running UNIX or Windows.

(Con Zymaris) In this easy-to-follow guide, we’re going to examine the commercial opportunities for open source software. We’ll investigate the different ways of generating revenue from open source software and how to reduce development costs by using open source software in your development life cy

(Larry Greenemeier) The story of open-source software has largely been one of success to date. Open source has grown exponentially in popularity among Web users, and it’s making headway in corporate application-development environments, even influencing the ways in which proprietary app vendors crea

(Vincent Danen) If you’re looking for an open source virus scanner, check out ClamAV, which ships with most Linux distributions. ClamAV scans for viruses as e-mail arrives.

(RS Ramaswamy) The previous article covered database operations using Perl. Here, we will learn to use PHP for accessing MySql and Access through ODBC and performing the usual operations of Add, Modify, Delete and Verify.

(C. Pitman Baker and Christopher Gamble) Because of the “communal” approach it takes, open-source software tends to evolve quickly and organically. Having so many different programmers working on a particular piece of software creates the effect of a huge programming team. The improvements that they

(Howard Fosdick) Here’s a quick quiz. Which scripting language … Runs on virtually all platforms and operating systems? Enjoys a strong standard to which all implementations adhere? Comes in object-oriented versions that are upwardly compatible with the standard procedural language?

(Roopa Rannorey) MySQL uses security based on Access Control Lists (ACLs) for all connections, queries, and other operations that a user may attempt to perform. There is also some support for SSL-encrypted connections between MySQL clients and servers.