Terracotta recently announced another strategic alliance, this time with EnterpriseDB, a PostgresSQL-based database vendor. Their partnership is aimed at addressing the technical challenges in scaling the data layer in private clouds. Under their...
0 replies - 5799 views - 03/25/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
What Oracle wants Oracle gets.
It said this morning that it had reached a compromise
price with BEA and that the acquisition would go through after all, having been
resisted by BEA, demanded by the dangerous Carl Icahn, BEA’s biggest
stockholder, and...
0 replies - 2425 views - 01/16/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Sun, Oracle’s sometimes best friend, turned into an Oracle
competitor this morning when it said it was buying MySQL, the open source
database that’s part of the famous LAMP stack. It’s paying a billion dollars. MySQL was supposed to go public but picked...
2 replies - 4230 views - 01/16/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
