Open Source

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/2

Sun's stock price has fallen to 16% less than Oracle's offer price for the company.  It appears that more investors are concerned that the Sun acquisition...

0 replies - 2463 views - 11/02/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/29

The US Department of Defence released a memo saying that they allow and encourage the use of open source software.  It took them six years to clarify this...

0 replies - 2230 views - 10/28/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Open Source : How Do You Stay Up To Date?

I Love the concepts and beliefs behind Open Source. I use Open Source libraries, applications etc. all the time. One of the things I have always found a...

18 replies - 10943 views - 01/10/09 by Schalk Neethling in News

Computing 95 Percentile In MySQL

When doing performance analyzes you often would want to see 95 percentile, 99 percentile and similar values. The "average" is the evil of performance...

0 replies - 2792 views - 12/03/08 by PeterZaitsev in News