The Bitstream

Hello happy reader…back in March, I wrote about Sun’s acquisition of MySQL and the xAMP collection of Open Source Software that powers much of the web. Well, Sun has gone and done it again. Sort of, anyway. The actual event was announced back in February of this year, before Sun purchased MySQL. OK, I don’t [...]

Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by OMas
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On the 26th of last month, Sun Microsystems announced a significant acquisition, that of  MySQL, a developer of the most commonly used open source SQL database manager. If that previous sentence is mostly gobbledygook to you, then you can either jump over to your Facebook page and preen or, read on and learn a bit about the machinery that makes the [...]

Posted on March 28th, 2008 by OMas
Filed under: FOSS, General IT | No Comments »