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We've kicked off our annual survey of MySQL users recently on the developer zone of the MySQL site. There are some new questions and some old questions so that we can gauge trends over time. For example in last year's survey we saw that: -4
Automatically generate Java Web service clients with Axis2, XFire, CXF, and Java 6, including WSDL compatibility checks
Last week, Hyperic hosted a gaming party at their offices, with plenty of open source people there from MySQL, MuleSource, JasperSoft and others. Ross Mason, co-founder of MuleSource, flew in all the way from Malta, just to play some Wii Tennis. (Ok,
Red Hat put out a series of announcements showing how RHEL 5.1 has better support for virtualization using the Xen kernel and how RHEL can now be purchased "in the cloud" via Amazon's EC2 service. This is a good move by both companies
The move away from commodity boxes running Linux continues. It's nice to see Red Hat getting in front of this market trend. Very cool news about RHEL being offered through Amazon's EC2. "The combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
Former VP Larry Singer says he left Sun because he disagreed with CEO Schwartz's over-emphasis on open-sourcing when the company should have been focusing on generating revenues
Matt Asay & Larry Dignan question whether Sun can grow. Matt believes that Sun needs a stronger software story in order to grow. Sun grew 1% YTY in the most recent quarter. Yay for open sourcing everything?!? Sun has great hardware products.
Jim Starkey, Senior Software Architect at MySQL, is featured in an online interview over at Dr Dobb's Journal. It's a short interview, but every question reveals insight into the Jim's thoughts on the relational model, SQL, security, s
Open source WSO2 ESB 1.0 makes XML messaging easy to deploy and easy to manage, but lacks high-availability options
Sometime rivals Red Hat and Sun are collaborating once again, this time on the open source version of Java. Ace CNet reporter Steven Shankland has the scoop, as usual. Seems like good news all around. The community gets a more open, collaborative dev