Sun to Buy MySql For $1 Billion

Well… It finally happened.
Edit: Commentary -

Matt Asay
Paula Rooney
Tim O’Reilly
Zack Urlocker
Matthew Aslett

[lack of] Support is the Key to Open Source Drawback

Insufficient support is the key drawback to using open source technology, according to “Open Source in the Enterprise: New Software Disrupts the Technology Stack”  the latest survey conducted by Unisphere Research for the IOUG and sponsored by MySQL.
A total of 226 people participated in the survey. Over half (53 percent) were database administrators. More than […]

(fake) Larry Ellison on Oracle’s Open Source Strategy

Fake Larry Ellison writes “Our open source strategy“.
Funny? Sad? True? You decide…

Larry Ellison in Israel

Larry Ellison made his first visit to Israel this week, so Oracle Israel and Globes organized an invitation only live appearance for the members of the Israeli business and IT market.
I was hoping to hear from him a little bit about Open Source issues. Most of the talk was about the history of Oracle and […]

Ruby on Rails - With Oracle

Obie Fernandez wrote a nice tutorial on Connecting to Oracle with Ruby on Rails

Download a Working Hibernate Search Example

A working example of Hibernate Search

Sharding?

“Shard” is just another word for “segment” or “partition,” but it’s the term of choice within Google - That is the statement noted in the Hibernate Shards documentation.
I like to describe Sharding as physical  partitioning. Unlike “usual” partitioning where the different segments of […]