<<JBoss supports the concept of Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP), a development methodology that means changes made in one part of an application ripple...
<<Thanks to the marriage of open source and Java in Sleepycat's new pure-Java version of Berkeley DB, many may reconsider whether they need to use a relational...
I've seen "lightweight" Java and OODBMS' embedded and non embedded used before, I've applied Prevayler to a system for instance. In my experience data...
Back in the good old days when enterprise computing depended solely on the mainframe, someone spotted a market for providing data processing facilities for...
Max, Thanks for raising the very relevant issue of data integration. It seems to be becoming increasingly unfashionable for applications to directly share...
Gervas, I agree with your most of your points, I suppose the issue I was really trying to point out is that, unless people realise what role lightweight dbms'...
Gervas -- Taking a look at your list of innovative databases, I was amused, yet pleased, to see Cache' on the list. Cache' originated in the mid-60's, IIRC ...
Thanks, Dawn. I know this is one of your specialities. I did not realise that Caché was quite so ancient - still it was innovative when it was born. I am...
One of the interesting recent trends in database development has been the growth of open source databases. The obvious example is MySQL, based in Sweden (yes,...
There has been much noise in the computer press about public sector users setting open source migration strategies. Brazil is an example of a country which is...
<<Muehlhaus said a cursory examination of Munich's proposed client software had turned up conflicts with more than 50 European software patents. The fear is...
Hi Gervas, I use PostgreSQL pretty much exclusively now. I haven't looked at MySQL for a couple of years, but when I made the decision, Postgres was MUCH more...
I use hsqldb quite successfully. It is an open source database on sourceforge and is used in a lot of project where a small, portable database is called for. ...
Fears! Might indeed be worth to have a look at. Is it just lobbying from some vendors or is it really something to be worried about? Check this one: Linux...
... The feature set is key, for the types of applications where I am able to use an open source solution. As the URL you referenced shows, MySQL is not...
<<Chris Stone, Novell's vice chairman, Office of the CEO, took a swipe at Red Hat by pointing out that JBoss--not Jonas--has more popular support. "JBoss has...
<<Computer Associates International is out to prove that even when it comes to free software, money talks. <The company is scheduled to announce on Wednesday a...
<<Support from software companies will help establish open-source databases. "Although we believe many independent software vendors will announce support for...
"How do you make money out of free software?" is a question frequently posited by those trying to understand this new paradigm. Many commercial vendors such...
Hi Gervas: I am a relatively new addition to this Yahoo Group (2 months) and have been watching with very eager and exhilarated enthusiasm for the outsourcing,...
Richard, what you are doing looks genuinely useful: I like your easily comprehensible uncluttered website, BTW. Is anyone else out there among you applying...
<<Project Columbia, a collaboration with two technology giants, will mean Nasa's computing power will be ramped up by 10 times to do complex simulations. <It...
On reflection this technology has obvious (so obvious that I had to reflect...) implications for large-scale ASPs. On a slightly more modest scale it would...
Hi Gervas: I am sure that there are some folks out there using Open Source tools as the starting points to their own IP, but as ASPextra.net is an aggregator...
Will a paperback ever loose its paper? By Sean McGrath We are voracious consumers of information. Our conscious minds process mind-boggling amounts of data...
<<So you have just completed implementing an enterprise resource
planning (ERP) software package and you think you're set for the next
five years—and I have...
<<As long as spyware has an opportunity to penetrate the system through its weakest link, the HTML browser, this next generation iteration of the Web will...
I have just founded a new Group dedicated to OS databases, which you can find at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/open-source-dbms/ As I write this I am the sole...
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