On the heels of yesterday's Steve Jobs keynote at Macworld, Apple may be the tech company that's top of mind for many readers. However, from an enterprise computing perspective, Sun Microsystem's ...

It takes time, leadership, and a fair amount of luck to successfully build an open-source community. It also takes money. Lots of it, if IBM's $1 billion commitment to Linux is any indication.

For Sun Microsystems Inc., the acquisition of open-source database vendor MySQL AB is a positive step, giving Sun its own database and a growing, loyal community of open-source users and developers to ...

The rift divided MySQL and PHP, software that lets computers construct customized Web pages on the fly. The two packages are found side by side so often--along with the Linux operating system and the ...

It’s interesting to see the response to this week’s announcement of MySQL’s new Query Analyzer (part of the subscription offering) and the forthcoming 5.1 release of the server. There’s been a lot of ...

And what’s been interesting to see is what is happening in the open-source world as far as people adopting that same methodology and trying to make use of it. In our view today, BitKeeper is still the ...

Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. MariaDB, the commercial company behind the popular open source database of the same name, has confirmed plans to become ...

The $1 billion acquisition is not expected to close until the end of Sun's 2008 Q3 or early Q4, but Mickos says he's already received many emails from partners thrilled with the deal. He was quick to ...