Oracle exec Edward Screven talked to eWEEK about the future of MySQL, InnoDB and the beta release of version 5.5 of the open source database
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Oracle Absorbs Sun Without Financial Harm
After acquiring Sun Microsystems, Oracle looks tanned and healthy, with solid quarterly financial results
Hardware Vendors Line Up Storage Offerings
Storage is the uncontrolled part of IT expenditure. That's a temptation that few hardware vendors can resist.
Gartner Rebuffs Cost Claims For Converged Data Centres
Analyst firm Gartner argues that combining data centre networks can often create more problems that it solves
Sun Open Source Chief Leaves Oracle To Join OSI
As Oracle cemented its purchase of Sun last week, the head of open source at Sun left to take up a post at the Open Source Initiative
Cisco Enters Portable Data Centre Market
The networking giant is moving into the portable container data centre market
Oracle To Sun Users: Put Away The Red Pen
SPARC servers and Solaris are key to its single-stack approach, says Oracle. But should customers believe it?
Why Microsoft Can’t Afford To Let Novell Die
Make no mistake - The hedge fund offer for Novell could effectively mean the end of the company. And Microsoft could suffer the worst, says Peter Judge
Oracle Dismisses Death Of OpenSolaris Reports
Oracle says it is not killing off the freely down-loadable community version of Sun's Unix-based Solaris enterprise operating system anytime soon