Sun will be bought by Oracle. Will this be the beginning of the end of MySQL?

MySQL has a serious market share. For that oracle has already tried to buy MySQL back in 2006. In an interview responding to the offer in 2006, MySQL chief Marten Mickos told that the reason for declining was that they wanted to keep MySQL an independent product. From that I assume that oracle wanted to merge Oracle DB and MySQL technology. Even though MySQL will be part of a major merger for which the rules aren’t yet clear, you might think that Oracle hasn’t changed their ideas about what they want with MySQL in the last 3 years.

Won’t MySQL just lose most of its market share if it become something else. Other …

The TelePort project is no longer under development.

This is a re-post of an article I wrote in back in August. We’re getting ready to release a new release of Javeline PlatForm at the end of this month. This release will be XForms compliant and has a lot of other new features as well. Before I start writing about that, I would like to put some attention on the communication layer aka Javeline TelePort.

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PHPBuilder posted an article about sending a form using AJAX. This article shows how to post a simple form. But looking closely at the example, you can also see what the problem is using the plain XMLHttpRequest object and writing an implementation yourself.

First of all you to write some rather difficult javascript code. Next you need to completely …