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Oracle kills Virtual Iron. Is MySQL next?

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.

June 23rd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: DB2, MySQL, Open Source, Oracle, PostgreSQL | 28 comments

IBM may open source DB2

“IBM may open source DB2″ is the headline headline in today’s article by Tom Espiner on ZDNet.co.uk. The article is based on the interview with Chris Livesey, IBM UK director of information management. I posted a comment on the article but I figured I’d provide a more complete explanation here in the blog.

Before I get in to the details, I wanted to just reemphasize that what you are reading here is NOT an official IBM position but an opinion that is mine and mine alone.

If you follow this blog than you already know that that [...]

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June 16th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: DB2, Open Source | 2 comments