Date: 01/17/08     Keywords: mysql, sql

I just read the announcement that Sun has acquired MySQL for $1 Billion. Rather than just citing the facts and wishing that I was one of the founders of MySQL so that I could purchase that dream home in Florida, I'd like to consider what's really going on rather than...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=322

Date: 01/16/08     Keywords: no keywords

The SAP-BusinessObjects go to market show was mildly interesting but left key questions unanswered. Colleagues Dan Farber and Mike Krigsman were on the call as was James Governor. I asked how the combined operation might incorporate non-financial measures into the new solutions. I was thinking about how...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=287

Date: 01/16/08     Keywords: mysql, software, sql

This morning, after digesting Oracle's acquisition of BEA and Sun's consumption of MySQL, I headed down SAP's Palo Alto offices to hear how the enterprise software giant will digest its latest acquisition, Business Objects. SAP CEO Henning Kagermann said Business Objects gives his company number one leadership...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7606

Date: 01/16/08     Keywords: mysql, database, sql

Updated: Sun Microsystems is taking the plunge into the database market with the purchase of open source database developer MySQL for $1 billion ($800 million in cash in exchange for all MySQL stock and assumption of approximately $200 million in options). With the move, announced Wednesday, Sun...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7611

Date: 01/16/08     Keywords: software, java, microsoft

We knew that Sun has been lusting after a real software business in addition to Solaris. We knew that Sun "shares" -- that it digs open source, including Solaris and Java. And we knew that Sun had a love-hate relationship with Oracle and a hate-hate relationship with IBM and Microsoft....

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2596

Date: 01/16/08     Keywords: mysql, software, database, sql

Sun announced Wednesday that it is buying MySQL for about $1 billion -- $800 million in cash and $200 million in options. The news comes on the same day that mega proprietary database software giant Oracle announced its intent to buy middleware giant BEA. The deal,...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1889

Date: 01/16/08     Keywords: database

The agency's proposed "server in the sky" database would share biometric data on the world's most-wanted criminals. Police in the U.K. are in talks with the FBI about establishing an international biometric database for tracking down the world's most wanted criminals and terrorists. The so-called "server in...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6226396.html

Date: 01/15/08     Keywords: database, security

Oracle as expected released its quarterly batch of security fixes Tuesday. In a blog post, Oracle said: Oracle today released the January 2008 Critical Patch Update (CPUJan2008).  This Critical Patch Update (CPU) addresses a total of 26 vulnerabilities affecting Oracle Database Server, Oracle Application Server, Oracle...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=813

Date: 01/15/08     Keywords: no keywords

The financial industries, particularly those concerned with securities trading, employ a lot of genuine rocket scientists - physics grads who aren't intimidated by complexity and consider the transformational models used in finance about as unnatural as breathing. Unfortunately most of their work is not understood...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1045

Date: 01/13/08     Keywords: no keywords

Business intelligence has been a hot area for years but more than 90% of everything actually being done in it still consists of cross tabulation - and a lot of people don't even understand that. In one of my first "professional" jobs I did an...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1044

Date: 01/11/08     Keywords: no keywords

n. r.v. twit·ted, twit·ting, twits To taunt, ridicule, or tease, especially for embarrassing mistakes or faults. See Synonyms at ridicule. 1. The act or an instance of twitting. 2. A reproach, gibe, or taunt. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=283

Date: 01/11/08     Keywords: no keywords

Nick Carr, the Paul Revere of utility computing, blogged about HP reducing its data centers from over 80 to 6 and Sun's effort to shut down all its internal data centers by 2013. To achieve even greater efficiency will require a higher level of consolidation - across companies...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7568

Date: 01/11/08     Keywords: mysql, database, sql

Virgin Mobile's decision to base its SMS database on mySQL is an important milestone for the GPL database. This was not Virgin's first entry into open source. Virgin Mobile also runs Red Hat. Virgin Mobile is a scaled enterprise. Even though SMS messages are...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1878

Date: 01/10/08     Keywords: software, database, security

Oracle said Thursday that its latest batch of patches will fix 27 security fixes "across hundreds of Oracle products," including eight for the company's database, seven for its e-business suite and six for its application server. In its advisory, Oracle outlines a laundry list of software affected....

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=798

Date: 01/10/08     Keywords: database, security, linux

A security researcher has found a remote command execution exploit in SAP's MaxDB database on the Windows, Linux and Solaris platforms. Researcher Luigi Auriemma published the flaw in MaxDB versions 7.6.03 build 007 and below. MaxDB (all ZDNet resources and SAP wiki) is an SAP-certified open source...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=795

Date: 01/10/08     Keywords: web, linux

Having followed computing and politics since 1996 I have long been fascinated with whether scaled Internet-based computing can, in fact, cut the cost of campaigning. This year represents the best test yet of that proposition. Every Presidential candidate has a Web site. Most run Linux. By...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1872

Date: 01/08/08     Keywords: web, google

As I write this, the interwebs are kicking off with the news that Plaxo, Facebook, Google and Robert Scoble have joined the DataPortability.org Workgroup. I can hear the cries already. First up Mike Butcher at TechCrunch who in Twitter said this is MASSIVE NEWS and reported that: As TechCrunch...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=277

Date: 01/08/08     Keywords: asp

I've been itching to get something written about Scoble's antics over on Facebook when he used the Plaxo script to scrape data as a way of pointing up what he believes is an issue around openness and data ownership. Way too much has been written but one aspect that was...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=276

Date: 01/08/08     Keywords: no keywords

Dan Farber: John, thanks for joining me. John Turato: Thank you. Dan Farber: You are the Chairman of the Open Travel Alliance, and perhaps you could start by giving us some color on exactly what it is. John...

Source: http://video.zdnet.com/CIOSessions/?page_id=246

Date: 01/08/08     Keywords: technology, web, hosting

Computerworld chronicles the tale of Web hosting firm C I Host Inc. and details how its data center was robbed. Meanwhile, the technology manager working the graveyard shift was held hostage as the robbers stole computer equipment. The story's point can't be more clear: Data centers aren't...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=789