Databases

Software development’s winners and losers, 2009 edition

The year that loved smartphones, scripting languages, the cloud, and open source was not always kind to developers

MySQL developers release 5.5 beta

Replication and improved partitioning are added to the new version of the topical open-source database

Big three relational database vendors diverge on Hadoop

Microsoft, IBM, Oracle: Three vendors, three different paths on dealing with the Hadoop open-source data processing technology

A different type of disaster recovery

Have you made plans for recovering from those employees who leave a catastrophe in their wake?

Dell must help customers realize they do care about green

Company execs need to better explain the link between "green" and "efficiency and cost savings"

EU-Oracle battle collapses into a lovefest

ERP vendor Nexedi offers to take over MySQL

The company says Oracle might destroy the value of the open-source database and thus shouldn't be allowed to acquire it

MySQL creator launches campaign to ‘save’ database

Widenius urges action to force Oracle to provide concessions and guarantees around MySQL as Oracle-Sun hearings near a climax

Oracle’s pledges on MySQL are ‘purely cosmetic,’ say critics

Oracle's 10 promises to the European Commission will expire five years after the deal is completed, the company said

Oracle-Sun merger gains favor in Europe

Following new promises made by Oracle over the weekend regarding MySQL, the EU seems set to approve the deal