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A different view on a “Database Appliance” concept

Leon — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:57:41 +0000

As the open source faithful have gathered in Portland for the annual O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) Canonical, the company behind an ever popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, announced that it has paired up the latest version of the free DB2 Express-C v9.7 with the latest version of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to deliver a free enterprise-grade cloud database appliance.

Not that kind of an appliance

Database appliances, especially for data warehousing, are all the rage. These database appliances deliver a package of hardware and database software that are put together and optimized by the DBMS vendor. Most of [...]

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Will Oracle lay off more MySQL people?

Leon — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:35:34 +0000

This really interesting article just crossed my desk. It looks like Oracle’s latest SEC filing is a pretty good indication of massive layoffs still coming as a result of the SUN acquisition. There is no way to tell which part of the business the layoffs will be in but I wonder if MySQL is affected. MySQL is not exactly a cash cow for Oracle and the business seems to be drying up as many loyal MySQL customers are heading for alternative sources of support for MySQL. It is not really cool or fiscally responsible to get support for [...]

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Steve Jobs: Flash is not open

Leon — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:59:52 +0000

Last week I asked a question if Apple went too far in its attack on Flash. This question generated a lively discussion on reddit. While my point was that Apple iPhone SDK restricts choice of development tools/languages to be only Objective-C, most comments centered on the merits of Flash. Steve Jobs felt compelled to add more fuel to this fire and published an open letter Thoughts on Flash. In this letter Steve Jobs explains why Apple has banned Flash. Basic just is that he believes it is proprietary, buggy, security challenged, battery draining technology and that Apple’s (his) [...]

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All the IT that a small business or a branch office needs

Leon — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:50:17 +0000

In the past year we have spent a lot of effort putting DB2 on the cloud and we achieved absolutely fantastic results. Db2 has proven to be a hit on both the Amazon cloud, on RightScale and on the IBM Developer Cloud. But all this focus on running applications on the rented IT infrastructure in the cloud does not mean we don’t care about people who want to have their own IT equipment. The free DB2 Express-C is a good fit for small and medium business and an even better fit for remote offices of very large enterprises. [...]

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EU thinks Oracle is out to kill MySQL

Leon — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:04:24 +0000

When I opined that Oracle can not be trusted to keep MySQL going there were some in the MySQL and Oracle community who accused me of spreading FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt). I agree that there is indeed a lot of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt around MySQL these days. However, I don’t think that this humble blog is the reason. Bottom line is that since the acquisition was first announced Oracle has said nothing about its plans for MySQL. Oracle certainly said plenty about its plans for SUN hardware, its plans for Java, even its plans for Solaris. [...]

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Another open source team leaves SUN in fear Oracle

Leon — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:24:20 +0000

It is no secret that we in the DB2 Express-C team are big fans of Ruby on Rails and we and our DB2 developers have worked hard to make DB2 a great database for Ruby on Rails programmers. JRuby is of particular importance to us as it helps advance the use of Ruby on Rails in the enterprise. With the impending acquisition of SUN by Oracle, the JRuby team felt uncertain about the future of JRuby within Oracle. So, they decided to join the people who really care about Ruby i.e. Engine Yard. Given Engine Yard's commitment to Ruby on Rails this is a great move for the Ruby community. We wish JRuby and Engine Yard teams the best. [...]

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Oracle kills Virtual Iron. Is MySQL next?

Leon — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:35:26 +0000

You can wait and see if Oracle will put MySQL on death row like it just did with Virtual Iron, or you can get ahead of the curve and start to plan for the alternatives like getting in touch with alternative MySQL support providers or take a look at DB2 Express-C and see if that is the right way for you to go. [...]

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MySQL escapes Oracle’s grasp

Leon — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:31:40 +0000

Last week I blogged about uncertain future of MySQL in Oracle’s hands. At that time a number of people pinged me to say that they thought that I was spreading FUD. In their view MySQL under Oracle’s stewardship would live long and propser.

Well, only a week has passed and Oracle is yet to ink the deal to swallow SUN. However, the key players in the MySQL community have already fired a shot across Oracle’s bow letting it know that it will not be directing the future of MySQL. Basically, while Oracle may be purchasing MySQL as part of the SUN acquisition, it [...]

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Cloud database market is heating up with Amazon announcement

Leon — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:40:55 +0000

Amazon announced its second entry in to the world of cloud databases. Called Amazon Elastic MapReduce, this appears to be a hosted implementation of the Hadoop framework. Hadoop, in a nutshell provides a way to analyse very large amounts of data by employing large number of processing nodes working independently. [...]

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The demise of the open source fanatic

Leon — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:02:29 +0000

I spent the last week in Portland at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention also known as OSCON. We were part of the IBM exhibit talking to people about DB2 Express-C. OSCON is an interesting conference. Basically it is a big lovefest for the open source guys. Imagine about 2500 geeks all assembled in a single place for a week to talk about free software. The best part for me is that OSCON is not fixated on Linux. There were plenty of tutorials and talks on PHP, Python, Django, Ruby on Rails and of course databases. As one would [...]

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