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We're heading into the home stretch for the Call for Papers for the MySQL Conference & Expo 2008. The official deadline is end of day today, October 30 and so far, we have plenty of great submissions. However, there's still an opportuni
Hyperic is encouraging IT staff to submit their scary stories to the Hyperic blog for a contest called "Nightmare on Web Street." We've all seen the brutal truth of systems gone wrong. Server rooms overheated. Disk crashes. Backing up
Looks like Fake Larry Ellison has decided to retire his blog. This is unfortunate as it was quite topical and funny. Never did figure out who was behind this, but we had some guesses... Who do you think was behind this one?...
JasperSoft's updated open-source BI suite makes it easier for end-users to customize their own BI Web portal to generate more sophisticated reports
Looks like SCO is preparing to sell off its Unix business for $36 million in order to stave off bankruptcy. Stephen Shankland has posted news over at CNet giving the details. The deal would give SCO some badly needed cash. While most will interpret t
I saw a press release about Nuxeo's new product focusing on "SOA". I didn't know what that meant, and didn't know much about Nuxeo. So, off I went to the Nuxeo website. I then asked Nuxeo CEO, Stefane Fermigier a few question
Red Hat's goal of earning 60 percent of its revenue outside the U.S. hinges on Asian governments seeing open source as a way to increase tech innovation in the region
At an ACM presentation at the University of Illinois last weekend, Microsoft's Eric Traut revealed that its working on slimming down the next major release of Windows by starting from a bare-bones kernel known as "MinWin"and then only
A colleague recently made a statement to the effect: "These developers are really interested in the future plans for WebSphere Application Server. Many of them have invested a significant portion of their career on WebSphere. They have invested
The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) recently surveyed their members about open source and has now published their findings. A few highlights: -More than one third of the respondents reported that they have deployed an open source database in pr