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Some thoughts on MySQL and Oracle
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| Fear #1 is that Oracle will kill MySQL, which
| Oracle is said to see as a threat to its cash-
| cow relational database management system. One
| might respond that similar fears were expressed
| after Oracle's acquisitions of Innobase and
| Sleepycat Software, but that things have not
| turned out that way so far. One might say (as
| Eben Moglen has) that keeping MySQL healthy is
| in Oracle's economic interest. One might also
| respond that Oracle could arguably do more
| damage to MySQL by breaking off the acquisition
| and allowing Sun to simply die. But what is
| most interesting about this particular concern
| is the lack of faith it shows in our
| community's ability to cope with such an
| outcome.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/366480/
ScienceOnline09 - an interview with Cameron Neylon
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| In terms of the blogs on my blog roll there are
| many that will be familiar (Deepak Singh's
| BBGM, Jean-Claude Bradley's Usefulchem, John
| Wilbanks' Common Knowledge, Neil Saunders' What
| you're doing is rather desperate). I keep an
| eye on Richard Grant (The Scientist), Jenny
| Rohn, and Martin Fenner at Nature Network. Some
| other blogs that may not be as familiar to the
| regular sciblogger community but are well worth
| the effort are Greg Wilson's The Third Bit,
| Mike Ellis' Electronic Museum, PT Sefton's blog
| and Nico Adams' Staudinger's Semantic
| Molecules.
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http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/12/scienceonline09_-_an_interview.php
The picons databases (Personal Images) are available via WWW in the Picons Archive
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| "picons" is short for "personal icons".
| They're small, constrained images used to
| represent users and domains on the net,
| organized into databases so that the
| appropriate image for a given e-mail address
| can be found. Besides users and domains,
| there are picons databases for Usenet
| newsgroups and weather forecasts. The
| picons are in either monochrome XBM format or
| color XPM and GIF formats.
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http://ubuntulandforever.blogspot.com/2009/12/picons-databases-personal-images-are.html
Recent:
MySQL 6 Features Roll Into MySQL 5.5 Milestone
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| Even with all the drama surrounding Oracle's
| pending acquisition of Sun and critics'
| concerns about its impact on Oracle's open
| source database competition, Sun developers are
| still hard at work on MySQL. One of the fruits
| of their labors is the recent MySQL 5.5
| milestone 2 development release, which
| introduces many new features to the open source
| database -- some of which were originally
| intended for MySQL 6.0.
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http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6938/1/
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