Michael 'Monty' Widenius, the founder of MySQL, stated in a blog post on Saturday that most of the issues identified were serious or crashing bugs. Not all problems are related to the new features; there are a number of older, known bugs that are still ...
The Australian subsidiary of the non-profit One Laptop per Child (OLPC) organisation today said it would commence a local "Give 1, Get 1" program on November 30 that would deliver the machines to both geeks and disadvantaged children. The initiative ...
Sun Microsystems has released the updated 5.1 version of the MySQL open source database software it recent acquired, promising improved performance and management of larger database applications. "If our users initially choose MySQL because of its low ...
The struggle to open up Java completely is finally coming to an end. Following the announcement of Sun's plans to make Java free and open under the General Public License (GPL) at JavaOne 2006, there have been a few struggles on the path to open source. ...
Gernot Heiser, professor of operating systems at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has stated that Windows and Linux will remain as the future of desktop and server operating systems. In an interview at the recent Linux.conf.au in Melbourne, ...
The "Father of Java" James Gosling has revealed that Sun will not be introducing a new API for MySQL but that it will probably do a lot more tuning work around it. At the Sun Tech Days in Sydney, Gosling said many tools that handle databases use JDBC, ...
Speaking at Linux.conf.au in Melbourne recently, the Linux kernel co-ordinator said: "Sometimes I don't even know who people work for because they tend to use their own email address, and sometimes they have company rules saying: 'You are not allowed ...
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