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Mitch Pronschinske12/04/09
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MySQL Usage Declining? What Should Oracle Do with MySQL?

A new survey claims that MySQL usage is going to decline over the next few years while PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and Oracle DB grow their user base.  The 451 Group recently polled their CAOS...

Mitch Pronschinske12/04/09
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MySQL Usage Declining? What Should Oracle Do with MySQL?

A new survey claims that MySQL usage is going to decline over the next few years while PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and Oracle DB grow their user base.  The 451 Group recently polled their CAOS...

Mitch Pronschinske12/04/09
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MySQL Usage Declining? What Should Oracle Do with MySQL?

A new survey claims that MySQL usage is going to decline over the next few years while PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and Oracle DB grow their user base.  The 451 Group recently polled their CAOS...

Mitch Pronschinske12/04/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/4

The release of Google Chrome for Mac OS X may already be here by the time this is posted. The Chromium team recently changed it's Mac OS X roadmap page saying that all of the bugs are now gone. However, the first Mac version for Chrome will be missing some...

Mitch Pronschinske12/02/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/3

It seemed like Apple was ready to annihilate Psystar's business a few weeks ago. The Mac Clone maker has been bankrupt for some time and last month a judge ruled in favor of Apple's copyright infringement case. In a surprise move, Apple recently called for a...

Mitch Pronschinske12/02/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/2

Neelie Kroes, the EU antagonist to Oracle's takeover of Sun, is stepping down as the Commission on Competition chair.  There's no word on whether the decision was voluntary or imposed, or if the Oracle-Sun deal had anything to do with it.  Her successor,...

Mitch Pronschinske11/30/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/1

Still trying to figure out a productive use for Google Wave? Go see what the Seattle Times did. The newspaper set up a public Wave to gather information from the community about a suspected cop-killer's wereabouts. The Wave already has over 100 people...

Mitch Pronschinske11/30/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/30

Two anonymous sources "with knowledge of the matter" told Reuters that Oracle asked for a hearing with the European Commission, which will take place December 10th.  This could mean that Oracle finally plans to address the EU's concerns about MySQL...

Mitch Pronschinske11/28/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/28

A new version of Apache Lucene, an open source search engine, was just released.  Version 3 of the Apache Lucene project is being called a "clean up release" by the project management committee chair, Grant Ingersoll.  The release removes all...

Mitch Pronschinske11/27/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/27

A new report by the Interactive Advertising Bureau shows that online ad revenues for the third quarter of this year have dropped 5.4% from the end of last year.  However, online ad revenues are up 1.7% from this year's second quarter.  Online ad sales were...

Mitch Pronschinske11/26/09
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US Senators Give Ellison a Hand

59 US Senators signed a request this week asking the European Commission to expedite its investigation of the Oracle-Sun deal.  The letter was addressed to the EU's head US delegate, Angelos Pangratis.  The signatories, led by Senators John Kerry (D) and...

Mitch Pronschinske11/25/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/26

Are you one of the few lucky searchers who saw the new Google search interface today?  Early reports say that Google just started testing its revamped search interface with random users.  You can find a method for getting this new interface here, but it may...

Mitch Pronschinske11/24/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/25

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. recently held early talks with Microsoft to show Wall Street Journal content, and possibly other News Corp. publications, exclusively on the Bing search engine.  Analysts say this plan would hurt Murdoch more than Google.  The...

Mitch Pronschinske11/24/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/24

CA, the agile solutions company, introduced a new suggestion box forum called the Agile Planner Community.  The community will give developers a chance  to mold the future of CA's upcoming Agile Planner tool.  Go there now and tell CA the best ways to...

Mitch Pronschinske11/23/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/23

SAP and Microsoft are supposedly ganging up on Oracle with a new marketing agreement.  Microsoft agreed to recommend SAP's BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation application to its customers as its preferred solution.  SAP seems to be at odds with...