Sun has sent shockwaves through the open-source software community today by acquiring open-source database company MySQL AB. The MySQL database is regarded as one of the core components of open source ...

A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. For years, the business-software development world has been split largely between Microsoft's .Net toolset and Java. Get ready for a third ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

An article asking who will first offer a LAMP platform as a service offering raises an even more fundamental question: does cloud computing even need the LAMP stack? James Urquhart is a field ...

Hamish Nuttall, the chief executive and founder of Nakedbus.com, says he knows enough about IT “to be dangerous”. It’s meant to be a self-deprecating comment, but given Nakedbus’s progress to own a ...

Digg.com credits two particular features of its LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) server cluster for helping the news aggregation site maintain speedy performance in the face of high growth. The ...

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