There was good news for Linux enthusiasts from the database front last week, as enterprise Linux suppliers and database vendors made some deals. Oracle announced that its key wares for business data ...

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The market for database server software, seen as a barometer of overall software market health, grew slightly last year, fueled in part by Linux, new research shows. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996.

Sybase said today that it has struck a deal with IBM in which Big Blue will market and distribute Sybase’s Linux database management software IBM will market the Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) ...

IBM and Sybase have teamed to add support for Sybase’s database software on IBM’s eServer OpenPower Linux servers. The two companies said they will jointly sell and market their products. The move ...

COMMENTARY--Quietly, in what sometimes seems like stealth mode, Linux systems have been moving from the front end of e-commerce to the back end. The commerce-grade Linux database has come of age. As ...

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Although Windows and Linux were traditionally viewed as competitors, modern IT advancements have ensured much needed network availability between these ecosystems for redundancy, fault tolerance, and ...

Shares of Red Hat Inc., the world’s biggest distributor of Linux computer software, took their largest fall in seven years after Oracle Corp. said it would begin offering competing services at a lower ...

In previous articles, I have discussed XML’s value as a data format for Linux users. I have also discussed a wide variety of Linux tools for processing XML. But the data that XML usually represents ...

The popularity continues to grow for Linux as an enterprise server operating system, as well as a platform for running large database servers. Gartner recently announced that Linux was the fastest ...