MySQL users are upset about plans Sun Microsystems disclosed this week to keep some strategically planned features — and the source code — closed. So, only paying customers will get access to the new database features.
Novell has finally announced development plans for the next generation of its enterprise Linux platform, Suse Linux Enterprise 11. Sun is already bragging, calling it the “best-engineered. And the most interoperable platform for mission-critical computing.”
Here’s an interesting question making its way around the World Wide Web: If you didn’t have to worry about the administrative tasks with SQL Server, would you consider using SQL Server as a service?
Good news for developers this week. Zend Technologies has announced its Zend Core product will run on the Windows Server 2008 platform. Providing parity between Windows Server and Linux in running PHP. All Zend products will run on the Windows Server 2008 platform by the end of the year.
There’s an interesting discussion on hacking going on over at LinuxForums. A poster from Fullerton, California who uses Suse Linux says he’s been the target of hackers hired. By a worldwide multi-million dollar company after a Wikipedia slip exposed his IP address, among other things.
2008 marked not just the beginning of a new year for Linux vendor Red Hat, but also a new beginning for its new CEO Jim Whitehurst. Whitehurst spoke with the InternetNews about his plans to tackle the challenges the Linux company faces.
Ubuntu and Red Hat are the most used Linux distributions among the 35,000 members of content-management vendor Alfresco’s community. The company found in its second survey of trends in enterprise open-source software usage.
Windows Server 2008 will release to manufacturing in February after all, InformationWeek reports.
Information Week magazine is declaring the top open-source stories of 2007. Among them: Microsoft and Samba, Dell shipping Ubuntu, and GPL Version 3. Here’s an excerpt from the article penned by Serdar Yegulalp regarding the Ubuntu story.
Microsoft unveiled a public beta for its hypervisor-based server virtualization technology. Known as Hyper-V, the technology is featured with some versions of Windows Server 2008.