Database News and Articles

In Munich, Wednesday, March 10, Oracle announced its upcoming strategy for the Sun takeover: the new couple will now sell complete packages and, next to Oracle's database, further develop Solaris along with Sun's SPARC and Flashfire server technologies.

In CeBIT Hall 2 F38, ]project-open[ demonstrated is Web-based project management software for the service industry.

The leader of the Gnome accessibility team, Will Walker, has until now worked for the Accessibility Program Office from Sun, which after the Oracle take-over melted into the relevant APO at Oracle.

Inventory management software Tellu has been completely reworked and is now available in version 3.0.0.

The embeddable database Berkeley DB is available in version 4.8.26 with new APIs.

Following the European Commission's OK to Oracle's takeover of Sun Microsystems, Oracle has now released a statement from their top management about MySQL and Solaris.

The open source backup software Bacula has surpassed the 1 million mark in Sourceforge's download statistics.

To counter the back-and-forth about the future of the free MySQL database after Oracle's takeover of Sun Microsystems, developers have put effort into releasing another test version, called a second milestone, of the product.