From NY Post: Oracle Leader Blinks – Larry’s Olive Branch (to the EU), the NYpost sources apparently say that “what [...] Ellison is proposing is the creation of a firewall between MySQL and the rest of the combined company, and possibly setting up an entirely separate board for the MySQL business.”

There is no independent confirmation of any of this, so it may be true, or just air, or a trial balloon to see how other parties respond… I’m not going to add opinions to this, I just reckon it’s an interesting progression in the case. We’ll see how it pans out.

Update: so it’s not true (see Reuters).

(so now I’ll add my opinion…) Unfortunate in a way because from my perspective it …

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Irony (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning hypocrisy, deception, or feigned ignorance) is a situation, literary technique or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity, discordance or unintended connection that goes beyond the most evident meaning. It is the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite.

Types of irony
Modern theories of rhetoric distinguish among verbal, dramatic and situational irony.
▪ Verbal irony is a disparity of expression and intention: when a speaker says one thing but means another, or when a literal meaning is contrary to its intended effect. An example of this is sarcasm.
▪ Dramatic irony is a disparity of expression and awareness: when words and actions possess a significance that the listener or audience understands, but the speaker or character does not.
▪ Situational irony …

For many years now, Sun provides ISVs with on-line access to Solaris, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Java, Netbeans, compilers, and much more.  This service is named EZQual and is used to evaluate Sun software,  and port and test applications on the Sun platform. To satisfy the demand we must be able to host many ISVs on a single system so we decided from scratch that the service would be implemented using virtualization, just like a cloud. Also, to provide a better user experience we decided to offer a remote desktop feature that, in conjunction with the virtualiztion, really offers what is known as a virtual desktop.

So far virtualization has been based on Solaris containers. Amongst other advantages, containers are easily provisioned by cloning a first template container. This feature is useful when - like us - you provision a …

For many years now, Sun provides ISVs with on-line access to Solaris, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Java, Netbeans, compilers, and much more.  This service is named EZQual and is used to evaluate Sun software,  and port and test applications on the Sun platform. To satisfy the demand we must be able to host many ISVs on a single system so we decided from scratch that the service would be implemented using virtualization, just like a cloud. Also, to provide a better user experience we decided to offer a remote desktop feature that, in conjunction with the virtualiztion, really offers what is known as a virtual desktop.

So far virtualization has been based on Solaris containers. Amongst other advantages, containers are easily provisioned by cloning a first template container. This feature is useful when - like us - you provision a …

We are pleased to announce the availablity of the 0.9.5.2 alpha release of InfiniDB Community Edition.  This is our latest alpha release and is not recommended for production work. 

New functionality we’ve added with 0.9.5.2 includes:  

Support for compound joins and joins between long string columns.
Bulk load recoverability.
Support for rename column and rename table.

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We are pleased to announce the availablity of the 0.9.5.2 alpha release of InfiniDB Community Edition.  This is our latest alpha release and is not recommended for production work. 

New functionality we’ve added with 0.9.5.2 includes:  

Support for compound joins and joins between long string columns.
Bulk load recoverability.
Support for rename column and rename table.

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Topic: DrupalMySQL

Have a look at this video of Brian Aker's great 10 minute lightning talk about NoSQL. NoSQL is a database movement which promotes non-relational data stores that do not need a fixed schema.

With the exception of Memcached, the Drupal world is very SQL driven -- and for all the right reasons. However, both at Mollom and Acquia we have to deal with some big data volumes and have …

Everyone seems to have an opinion about whether Oracle should be allowed to acquire the MySQL database along with Sun Microsystems including former MySQL/Sun executives, developers, rivals, partners, analysts, journalists, the Department of Justice and even US Senators. What do open source software users think?

We asked the members of the “CAOS user community”* to tell what they thought of the proposed deal, as well as share some details on current database usage. The results have been published in the form of a 451 Group report (subscribers only) but here’s some of the headline figures:

• The use of MySQL is expected to decline from 82.1% of the 347 respondents today as 78.7% expect to be using it in 2011, declining to 72.3% 2014.

• The proposed acquisition of MySQL by Oracle has a part to play in …

MySQL Cluster Connector for Java is a new feature in the upcoming Cluster 7.1.

It is an easy to use, high-performance Java and JPA interface for MySQL Cluster. We currently call it simply Cluster/J and Cluster/JPA. It is an Objection Relational bridge that maps Java classes to tables stored in MySQL Cluster, and implements an OpenJPA interface.

How does it work?

The new MySQL Cluster Connector for Java and JPA implementation consist of two parts: an OpenJPA plugin and the standalone Cluster/J API.
The standalone Cluster/J API allows you to write very simple Java programs for MySQL Cluster. A read by primary key is then as easy as

Fish e = session.find(Fish.class, 4711);

A query like the above is executed without using the MySQL Server. Cluster/J API is a native MySQL Cluster-specific API, which is a direct access path to Cluster which is very simple to …