(Relational DataBase Management System) See relational database and DBMS.
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- Oracle's Virtualization Story
- Kool-aid?Looks like someone has been drinking the kool-aid. Let's be clear, Oracle's distro is a rip-off of RedHat's, albeit behind a year or so, plus patches to help their RDBMS that may not be accepted in the upstream projects. Don't let Oracle fool you, the core engineers are...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud
- Three reasons this is a bad paradigm...Security, security and...let's see, what was that other thing...oh yeah, security. The comment "enterprise customers are likely to take their time moving sensitive data into Amazon?s RDS effort" should be nominated for the understatement of the year award. What's more likely is...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Aqua Data Studio 8.0.2 (Mac)
- Aqua Data Studio is a database developer's complete Integrated Development Environment IDE. The IDE provides three major areas of functionality: A) Database query and administration tool, B) a Suite of compare tools for databases, source control and filesystems and C) a complete and integrated source control client for Subversion SVN...
- Software downloads 2009-10-23
- VA now loves its VistA software
- In a VA hospital recently and watched VistA at workThe VA hospital in Omaha Nebraska handles about ten times the load of a normal hospital and every single bit of the load is possible because of their software. My sister had a big glitch show up in her medical...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Aqua Data Studio 7.5.31 (Mac)
- Aqua Data Studio is a database developer's complete Integrated Development Environment IDE. The IDE provides three major areas of functionality: A) Database query and administration tool, B) a Suite of compare tools for databases, source control and filesystems and C) a complete and integrated source control client for Subversion SVN...
- Software downloads 2009-08-10
- Mozilla shuts online store after security breach
- Mozilla shuts online store after security breachMozilla shuts online store after security breachThey must have been running linux.RE: Mozilla shuts online store after security breachIts unfortunate that this has occurred, as Mozilla's name is now partly associated with a crime that would be difficult for them to have prevented. This...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-05
- Comparative Management Costs Study: Oracle Database 11g Vs. Microsoft SQL Server 2008
- This paper is the latest in a series of Comparative Management Cost Studies CMCS comparing Oracle Database with database management systems offered by other leading enterprise software vendors. This edition of the study compares Microsoft SQL Server 2008 with Oracle Database 11g. Following the same approach taken in the earlier...
- White papers 2009-07-01
- BaseTen 1.7 (Mac)
- BaseTen is a new, open source Cocoa database framework for working with PostgreSQL databases, designed with familiar, Core Data -like semantics and APIs. With this 1.0 Release Candidate 1 version, a final 1.0 release is very near and it is safe to start development with the current BaseTen API. The...
- Software downloads 2009-06-12
- Overused words of the decade: 'open' and 'enterprise'
- "Open" is what we would like every piece of code to aspire to, and "enterprise" means a harmonious collection of industrious people and purring machines. They are the magical marketing words, evoking images of all that is good and wholesome. But perhaps they are getting overused. Everything...
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Nagios fork warning to Oracle
- Nagios fork warning to OracleIMHOI suspect that several of the Sun F/OSS projects are more than ready to strike out on their own. OO.o, for instance, has certainly benefited from the resources Sun has put into the project but has also suffered from Sun's dominance.Like when Netscape set Mozilla...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-06
- CRIKEY! He can swallow whole companies! But not communities.
- Boy, what a big beautiful snake he is, mates. He eats multi-billion dollar companies with all their assets, WHOLE. But even big old  Constrictus Siliconvallis cannot squeeze the Open Source community. So, suffice to say, the Sun Microsystems story didn't end the way...
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Oracle acquiring Sun
- Oracle acquiring Sunthe Oracle logo hanging over MySqlIt will be surreal to see the mighty evil Oracle logo hanging above MySql.RE: Oracle acquiring SunMaybe this means we'll see Oracle 11g for Solaris X64 in the not-too-distant future? --DaveRE: Oracle acquiring Sunbye mysql!RE: Oracle acquiring SunI agree with the synergy......
- Discussion threads 2009-04-20
- Oracle acquiring Sun
- Sounds like a good thing to me - no immediate conflicts, lots of possible synergies. And Ellison, of course, is a big Sun Ray fan - as are many of the remaining Peoplesoft and Oracle RDBMS developers. by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Is there an open source alternative to Microsoft Outlook?
- Is there an open source alternative to Microsoft Outlook?Do you mean in Windows?Because in KDE you have Kontact, and in Gnome you have Evolution. You could try googling to see if either of those have decent Windows ports. You'd probably have better luck finding one for Evolution.RE: Is there an...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- More on Sun vs. IBM: Why destroy SPARC
- To really understand why IBM might want to cripple Sun through take-over talks all you need to know is that a Sun 5440 will outperform a P570 by about 2:1 on most business tasks - and costs roughly ten cents on the IBM dollar, inclusive of storage and RDBMS...
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- Surround SCM 2009 (Windows)
- Surround SCM, a highly scalable cross-platform software configuration management solution, controls access to source files and other development assets. All data is stored in industry-standard relational database management systems for greater security, scalability, data management, and reporting. Feature-rich Surround SCM includes changelists and atomic transactions, LDAP and Active Directory support,...
- Software downloads 2009-03-23
- Reading the Oracle tea leaves
- In reviewing RDBMS and related licensing I found something I hadn't expected: I knew that Oracle's strategy is to shift the revenue base to applications and so ultimately position itself to give the infrastructure products away - but I hadn't realized that Sybase and IBM have pretty much resigned themselves...
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- RDBMS license costs and Open Source
- RDBMS license costs and Open SourceSoftware EngineeringOne of the basic tenants of SE is that 90% of the cost of software "projects" development is in the maintenance phase. IOW all the work of designing, developing and deploying only amount to 10% of the lifecycle cost. So if you doubled your...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-09
- RDBMS license costs and Open Source
- A comment by frequent contributor JesperFrimann last week caused me to take a closer look at licensing practices among major commercial database vendors other than Microsoft. All three of the big guys (Oracle, IBM, and Sybase) follow the same basic sales model: ...
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgrade
- Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgradeAnecdotal evidenceThis is the Nth time you use this particular setup of the two 690s as a basis for comparison between AIX/Power and Solaris/Whatever. As stated in another post the problems with that system has nothing to do with AIX but with design.I can counter...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-04
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