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Mysql Alternatives

April 20th, 2009 · No Comments

While it’s no longer news that Oracle shelled out $5.6 billion for Sun Microsystems many open source lovers have to be at least wondering what will happen to the most widely used free database server. With nearly 44% of software developers choosing Mysql as database of choice many are betting on the fact that MySql [...]

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Sun dumps IBM for a better offer from Oracle – what will happen to MySQL?

April 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Big news in the tech world – Sun Microsystems will be sold to Oracle.  In case this still doesnt ring any alarm bells, Sun Microsystems owns MySQL.  Oracle is the worlds leading database.  This will definetly make things exciting – hopefully keeping MySQL open and free.

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