Open Source

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/18

Microsoft released version 4.0 of its .Net Micro framework under the Apache 2.0 licence.  That's right, the .Net Micro development framework is now open...

1 replies - 2001 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/11

Google has until the end of the week to revise its book deal with the Authors Guild and the Association of American publishers.  A judge extended the deadline...

0 replies - 2180 views - 11/11/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

EU Rejects Snoracle - Larry Vows to Fight!

Oracle and the  EU are escalating their legal battle over the Sun acquisition.  The EU took the first step towards blocking the merger Monday with a formal...

6 replies - 2595 views - 11/10/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

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 - 3586 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 - 3023 views - 10/28/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Could the EU Block the Oracle-Sun Deal?

This week the European Commission expressed its displeasure with Oracle's lack of cooperation in the antitrust probe surrounding the Sun acquisition. ...

3 replies - 2163 views - 10/22/09 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 - 11135 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 - 2873 views - 12/03/08 by PeterZaitsev in News