XML Moves to mySQL
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| The unification of XML and SQL relational data has taken another significant
| step forward recently with the introduction of significant new XML
| functionality in mySQL, the world’s most popular open source database. In
| versions 5.1 and 6.0, mySQL adds the ability to retrieve tables (and JOINS)
| as XML results, to retrieve SQL schemas as XML files, to both select content
| via a subset of XPath and to update content using similar function...
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http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/12/xml_moves_to_mysql.html
Quote for the day:
"Two years after you ship a product, no one will remember if you were two
months late. Everyone will remember if you ship a bad product."
--Windows 2000 Marketing Manager Jim Ewel
Related:
MySQL Releases Database Connector Beta
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| Zack Urlocker, executive vice president of products at MySQL, said the new
| Unicode support makes it possible to deal with virtually every language on
| the planet—even made-up ones such as Klingon, the language of the alien
| Klingon species on "Star Trek."
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2234144,00.asp
Open source here to stay, says MySQL CEO Marten Mickos
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| "Microsoft can use [its] money in other ways to threaten free and open-source
| software, and I'm sure that they have," Mickos said. "But I think we will see
| less of that in the future because they've done it and it hasn't helped
| them." Many Microsoft customers use open-source products and find it
| challenging when the company makes it harder to integrate Microsoft products
| and open-source software, he said.
|
| "I'm not too worried," Mickos said. "This open source movement is so strong
| that nothing can stop it anymore."
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=operating_systems&articleId=9027662&taxonomyId=89&intsrc=kc_top
http://tinyurl.com/2rjmtn
MySQL Set For IPO?
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| Investor says maker of crucial Web 2.0 component has reached the stage when
| the world expects it to list.
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http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=22940&hed=MySQL+Set+For+IPO%20§or=Industries&subsector=Computing
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