Interesting quote about the Oracle/Sun acquisition from EETimes.com:
“Acquisitions have strengthened Sun’s position in the enterprise storage and business integration software markets, but have not positively affected the company’s business or financial profile.”
To put that another way: Sun has been attempting to achieve incremental successes at a game that nobody else really wants to play anymore. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'MySQL'
Thoughts on Oracle/Sun
April 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Collaboration, Content, Community, MySQL, Web/Tech, Work
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Sun/MySQL and .NET
January 16th, 2008 · No Comments · MySQL
Woke up this morning to the Sun/MySQL news; my initial thought was "uh oh". My big concern is whether Sun will continue to support languages-that-are-not-Java as well as MySQL has been doing.
But my concerns were at least partially laid to rest when MySQL’s CEO Marten Mickos explicitly called out their support for lots of different [...]
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Database Queries with Windows Powershell
October 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments · .NET, Microsoft, MySQL, Web/Tech
I haven’t done a serious learning project for a while so this week I decided to play around with Windows Server 2008 and PowerShell. I’ll post some thoughts about Server 2008 soon (at first glance it looks terrific once you get past the fact that IIS is now a "role" instead of something you install). [...]
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Cgen: Simplest .NET/MySQL Relational Wrapper That Could Possibly Work
May 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment · .NET, MySQL, Open Source, Platforms, Web/Tech
Last week I attended and spoke at the MySQL conference. Some of the talks, particularly the ones that targeted system administrators rather than developers were over my head, but that’s useful information in itself — it serves as a reminder that sometime soon I’ll need to either learn the finer points of big-time MySQL system [...]
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At MySQL Conference This Week
April 23rd, 2007 · No Comments · McManus World Tour, MySQL, Web/Tech
I am spending today preparing for my session at the MySQL conference on Thursday. I’ll be speaking on "MySQL and .NET in the Real World" which will cover my experience creating Approver.com and will also include a run-through of the Visual Studio integration with MySQL.
Last year I created a little command-line tool that generates MySQL [...]
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New Version of MySQL .NET Connector
March 7th, 2007 · No Comments · .NET, MySQL
A while back I posted that the 5.x line of MySQL connectors was a bit too garden-fresh for production use. Fortunately Reggie and team have quickly released a new version: here are the details.
From the release notes it looks like they might have resolved the problem that I was having. I’m still using the [...]
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MySQL .NET Connector Madness
February 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · .NET, MySQL
As I’ve been writing about here for a while, my big learning project of 2006 was to pick up MySQL and to build a web site using ASP.NET with MySQL as the back-end. This went really well, better than I could have expected. For someone who has experience with SQL Server, the learning curve isn’t [...]
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Outline of My MySQL Talk at VSLive
February 16th, 2007 · 3 Comments · .NET, MySQL
Here’s a list of slides I’m developing for the MySQL talk I’m giving at VSLive next month. This talk is intended for developers who are proficient with .NET and some kind of relational database but with with little or no exposure to MySQL. I am pretty sure that the talk is going to be 60 [...]
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Installing the MySQL ADO.NET Connector into the Global Assembly Cache
February 13th, 2007 · 2 Comments · .NET, MySQL
This morning I sat through a MySQL webinar on Visual Studio tools for MySQL presented by the most excellent Reggie Burnett.
One of the questions that came up after the talk pertained to installation problems on Windows. (I should preface all this by saying that MySQL, the database server, has a good installer and is a [...]
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A MySQL IPO in 2007?
January 31st, 2007 · No Comments · MySQL, Open Source
Link: GigaOM ยป MySQL prepping for an IPO.
"Long a favorite of web developers, MySQL saw serious growth in 2006 and added 2,500 new customers, and also introduced MySQL Enterprise. There seems to be a renewed interest in open source IPOs….For starters, the corporations have taken a shine to the open source3 software.
Secondly, most companies with [...]
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