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MySQL 5.5 Milestone 2 improves replication and stored procedures
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| The MySQL developers have released milestone
| 2 of MySQL 5.5, on the path to a general
| release in mid-2010. The new milestone
| release incorporates semi-synchronous
| replication in MySQL 5.5 based on patches to
| InnoDB developed by Google. This is designed
| to ensure that when a change is committed in
| the master database, at least one slave has
| confirmed that the data has arrived and been
| buffered before the commit is complete.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/MySQL-5-5-Milestone-2-improves-replication-and-stored-procedures-886742.html
Oracle, MySQL and the EU: The Endgame Q&A
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| Like a tea kettle, the ongoing acquisition
| of Sun by Oracle, objected to by the EU, has
| gone from cold to boiling to cold to boiling
| and back again these past few months. The
| diversity of opinions, even amongst the
| those considered to be experts on the
| subject, is remarkable and has led to a wide
| ranging, passionate debate.
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http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/12/15/endgame-qa/
EnterpriseDB Receives High Marks from AQA
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| EnterpriseDB, the enterprise Postgres
| company, today announced that the Assessment
| and Qualifications Alliance (AQA), the UK's
| largest examination board, has selected and
| deployed Postgres Plus Advanced Server to
| create a business-critical extranet
| application. Utilizing Postgres Plus as the
| database solution for its 'Examiner
| Extranet,' AQA empowers its users with
| reliable, real-time access to core business
| data in a secure and highly cost-effective
| manner, ultimately saving the non-profit
| organization valuable capital and ongoing
| operational expenses.
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http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/enterprisedb-receives-high-marks-from-aqa-79303552.html
The case in favor of the open source enterprise database
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| Another indication that the database market
| is ripe for commoditization is that
| specialized, open source database management
| systems are appearing on the horizon to
| address niche markets. Derby (pure Java) and
| Hadoop (for data-intensive, distributed
| apps), for example, are gaining traction for
| unique applications.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/The-case-in-favor-of-the-open-source-enterprise-database/1260812096
BI and Data Warehouse Vendors Chime in on Oracle's MySQL Commitments
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| Cautious optimism. This was the basic
| reaction shared this week by open-source
| business intelligence (BI) and data
| warehousing vendors commenting on ten
| commitments Oracle announced December 14 on
| how it would handle MySQL. Issued in hopes
| of winning approval of its acquisition of
| MySQL owner Sun Microsystems by the European
| Commission, the commitments made a favorable
| impression on open-source database partners
| and OEM licensees.
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http://intelligent-enterprise.informationweek.com/channels/business_intelligence/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=AZVELGGZBUTL5QE1GHOSKHWATMY32JVN?articleID=222002294
Recent:
Oracle customers and MySQL users speak out
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| Behind closed doors, over Thursday and
| Friday, the European Commission has been
| holding a hearing on the proposed
| acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle.
| The Wall Street Journal reports that
| several Oracle customers, including the
| Spanish bank BBVA, Vodafone UK, the
| National Health Service and the Oracle
| user group, spoke in support of the
| acquisition. The hearing had been preceded
| by an initiative by Oracle to mobilise
| customers to speak out on the Commission's
| objections to the takeover.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Oracle-customers-and-MySQL-users-speak-out-884416.html
The European Commission and Oracle-Sun
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| I spent last Thursday and Friday in
| Brussels, attending the European
| Commissionâs Oral Hearing in the
| competition investigation of the
| acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle.
| The proceedings at the Oral Hearing were
| confidential; I cannot write about the
| presentations made there by others. I can,
| however, summarize the three points I made
| during my brief presentation on Friday; my
| previous written submission to the
| commission is already available. I want to
| explain what I said and where I think we
| stand now that the Oral Hearing is over.
|
| [...]
|
| If the âremedyâ chosen is to permit the
| merger unconditionally, the likeliest
| outcome is the one most favorable to
| competition. For its own business reasons,
| Oracle will heavily invest in MySQLâs
| future. In due course, Oracle should
| upgrade the license of MySQL to GPLv3, and
| should accept and integrate third-party
| patches under that license. This will
| provide safety from any future patent
| aggression by any of the communityâs
| members against the program. By
| diversifying its copyright ownership,
| MySQL will become a pure GPL commons. The
| companies that currently sell MySQL in
| proprietary combinations can continue to
| use and upgrade their products with their
| own maintenance and enhancements, if they
| donât want to come into the GPL community.
| Oracle will continue to have exactly the
| same business reasons to support and lead
| the MySQL community, and the same reasons
| to be apprehensive for their position
| should they be poor stewards of the
| communityâs value. And everyone else can
| invest in MySQL with the knowledge that
| they will always have access to the value
| of everyone elseâs investments as well as
| their own. The modularity and flexibility
| of MySQLâs architecture will maximize the
| extent of the value everyone can realize
| from the commons. By selling support for
| the worldâs most installed database,
| Oracle can project itself everywhere that
| Microsoft SQL Server might want to go, and
| can drive SQL Server into competition with
| a price-zero GPLâd community product,
| which experience as well as theory shows
| is a game Microsoft canât win.
|
| So the GPL ensures robust and beneficial
| competition in the global software
| industry. Once again.
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http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/blog/cases/oracle-sun/ec-hearing-and-after.html
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