Customers Win in Database Vendors' Race to Linux
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Ziff Davis - Opinion: Linux is profoundly shaking up the database market, hopefully to customers' benefit.
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The struggling PC vendor polls uses on how to fulfull a popular request for PCs that run on Linux instead of Windows.
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IBM has decided to extend its support for Sybase, a competing database product to its DB2 database package, to present a Linux server-software package.
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COMMENTARY -- In a press release issued yesterday, with the headline &quot;Sybase First to Provide Free Linux Enterprise-Class Database for Production Use,&quot; Sybase notes that it has &quot;deepened its commitment to the Linux community with the availability of the
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Growing importance of Linux in the enterprise is focus of event.
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Pushes the blue elephant EnterpriseDB, the opens source database company, aims to capitalize on the uncertainty around MySQL's purchase by Sun Microsystems, and is wooing developers with improved capabilities and services.â¦
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One project will let customers run SuSE Linux as a guest on Longhorn, and vice versa.
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Venture capitalists are lavishing money on the fashionable Linux supercomputing concept--but smaller firms face much larger rivals.
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Database administrators have a flock of new products to choose from right now, but hardware problems and glitches elsewhere in the system can negate version improvements. Computerworld talked to DBAs balancing the new products with the old realities.
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Some enterprise database users and industry analysts with whom BetaNews spoke today believe the purchase of open source database producer MySQL by Sun Microsystems could have an across-the-board effect on the entire database market.
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New users are making their way to Linux and open source, one acronym at a time.
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Sybase (Quote, Chart) announced it has tailored its Linux-based database to run on rival IBM&#39;s eServer OpenPower systems, providing customers more choice in the increasingly popular market for Linux systems.
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Will Sun's $1 billion buyout of open source database vendor SQL drive down pricing on enterprise databases from IBM, Microsoft of Oracle?
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Open-source database vendor Ingres Corp. is hoping that its newly released Icebreaker database and Linux combination will help it win new customers and enter fresh markets.
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MySQL developers turn to an unlikely source for database tool: Microsoft. Patch readies Linux for cell phones, DVD players. Also: SGI visualizes Linux.
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Oracle is now seeing the MySQL database user base as an opportunity, unlike two years ago, when Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said users of the open source product are not the people who would buy Oracle because they did not have any money. Â
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Ziff Davis - A new study by VDC finds Linux in barely 2 percent of retailers' point-of-sale systems; it also indicates more strength for bar-code systems and more stumbling blocks for RFID.