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Greenplum Revs Internet-Scale Database

Greenplum, the other (Postgres/Bizgres-based) open source database near and dear to Sun besides MySQL, this one capable of messaging a petabyte of data and...

0 replies - 667 views - 02/13/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Why Microsoft Needs Yahoo: the Real Story

So one day, Scott McNealy, founder and chairman of Sun, read in his morning newspaper how the use of Java was rapidly diminishing, courtesy of something called...

0 replies - 10179 views - 02/03/08 by Ivo Jansch in News

Sun Backs Postgres House on Heels of MySQL Acquisition

The ink was still drying on Sun’s billion-dollar deal to buy the webby, low-end open source database house MySQL when Sun turned around and put money...

0 replies - 2732 views - 01/22/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Sun Buys MySQL, Gets Oracle for an Enemy

Sun, Oracle’s sometimes best friend, turned into an Oracle competitor this morning when it said it was buying MySQL, the open source database that’s part...

2 replies - 912 views - 01/16/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News