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  REMEMBER THIS? The rise and fall of Sun Microsystems

• 10 essential performance tips for MySQL

  By Baron Schwartz | 14 May, 2012 20:11

  As with all relational databases, MySQL can prove to be a complicated beast, one that can crawl to a halt at a moment's notice, leaving your applications in the lurch and your business on the line.

• Master MySQL in the Amazon cloud

  By Sean Hull | 30 April, 2012 20:15

  For many MySQL database admins, Amazon Web Services represents the brave new world of cloud computing -- one fraught with disappearing servers, disk I/O variability, and other shared resource challenges, not to mention questions regarding the security of data.

• WampServer delivers a smart, Windows-friendly platform for Apache, MySQL and PHP-based apps

  By Susan Perschke | 23 April, 2012 14:36

  While many popular website applications (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc.) are open source and therefore freely available, running these PHP-based apps on a Windows IIS web server requires a bit of retrofitting.

• Rackspace launches new OpenStack-based cloud portfolio

  By Ted Samson | 16 April, 2012 20:11

  Rackspace has unveiled an "early access" limited-availability edition of its updated public cloud environment, built on the open source cloud platform OpenStack. Dubbed simply Rackspace Cloud, its features include cloud servers, databases, block storage, networks, and monitoring, as well as a new control panel.

• Flexing NoSQL: MongoDB in review

  By Andrew Glover | 08 February, 2012 22:15

  The NoSQL movement has spawned a slew of alternative data stores, all of which attempt to fill voids left by traditional relational database implementations. But while it's easy to fit the various relational databases (MySQL, Oracle, DB2, and so on) under a single categorical umbrella, the NoSQL world is much more diverse, and the NoSQL label is too general. NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB and Cassandra are so vastly different from each other that apples-to-apples comparisons are practically impossible. Thus, within the world of NoSQL, there are subcategories such as key-value stores, graph databases, and document-oriented stores.

• Programming Opa: Web development, reimagined

  By Rick Grehan | 01 February, 2012 22:07

  Building a Web application today means using a variety of different software technologies, each executing in a different domain. JavaScript, HTML, and CSS in the browser; PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, or the like on the server; MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, or any of a growing list of database servers as your persistent storage back-end. With Opa, an open source Web development technology from the French company MLstate, building a Web application tomorrow could be much more straightforward -- and safer.

• Oracle's 'thrown in the towel' on database patching, researcher claims

  By Gregg Keizer | 18 January, 2012 06:46

  A security researcher today criticized Oracle for neglecting to patch its core database products, noting that the massive update slated for later Tuesday will set a record for the fewest fixes.

• Oracle to issue 78 patches, including 27 for MySQL

  By Chris Kanaracus | 14 January, 2012 03:46

  Oracle is set on Tuesday to release 78 security fixes for vulnerabilities in its database, middleware and applications, according to a preview announcement posted to the company's website this week.

• REMEMBER THIS? The rise and fall of Sun Microsystems

  By InfoWorld staff | 28 January, 2010 11:32

  Sun was a tech juggernaut for nearly three decades. Our memorial slideshow gives this former titan its due.

• No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam

  By Eric Lai | 02 July, 2009 12:07

  The meet-up in San Francisco last month had a whiff of revolution about it, like a latter-day techie version of the American Patriots planning the Boston Tea Party.