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What Will Oracle Do with MySQL?
maximumpc.com - 30 days ago
What Will Oracle Do with MySQL?
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One of the challenges facing Oracle in its $7.4 billion takeover bid of Sun Microsystems is in convincing the European Commission that it plans to devote just as much attention to the free, open-source MySQL database as it will on any of its own costlier parallel database products. So far ...
kevinclosson.wordpress.com - 10/21/2009
Sun Oracle Database Machine. The Million Oracle Database IOPS Machine or Marketing Hype? – Part I
— kevinclosson.wordpress.com — This one goes out to the Not Million IOPS DBA. Several blog readers have emailed me to... ask why I have not been blogging about the 1 million IOPS capability of Sun Oracle Database Machine. My first inclination was to blog sarcastically that the reason is because Sun Oracle Database Machine is ... (more) Sun Oracle Database Machine. The Million Oracle Database ...

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kevinclosson.wordpress.com - 10/22/2009
Adding Morgan’s Library To My Blogroll
— kevinclosson.wordpress.com — This is just quick blog entry to point out that I’m adding Morgan’s Library to my blogroll.... Dan Morgan (Oracle ACE Director) maintains very helpful resources on the site. For instance, I recommend visiting the actual library itself. (more) Adding Morgan’s Library To My Blogroll

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kevinclosson.wordpress.com - 10/21/2009
Why I Don’t Link To Official Oracle Corporate Blogs
— kevinclosson.wordpress.com — I recently realized I’ve failed to link to the official Oracle blog on data warehouse related topics.... For whatever reason I thought I did this some time back but have apparently been speed-reading my blogroll. Better late than never… I’m adding The Data Warehouse Insider to my blog roll. You ... (more) Why I Don’t Link To Official Oracle Corporate Blogs

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