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Posts tagged "MySQL"

MySQL and PostgresSQL jobs on the Rise, Oracle job postings decline

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Mark in Uncategorized

This tweet from former MySQL AB CEO Mårten Mickos caught my eye. It shows a trend of increased demand for MySQL and PostgresSQL expertise while job postings on job websites for  those with Oracle and Ingres expertise declined. I was a little shocked by the graph until you realize it’s just a trend. I then [...]

Add new tag, Database, Ingres, Mårten Mickos, MySQL, Oracle, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL 2 Comments Read More

Barracuda Tries to Gobble-Up SourceFire

Posted on June 3, 2008 by Mark in Featured Articles, LinuxToday, LinuxWorld, Online Community, Open Source

Over the last few years there has been a lot of fanfare around open source companies and their liquidation events. Most of the news has been around Sun’s billion dollar acquisition of MySQL or the Citrix acquisition of Xen and even Yahoo’s acquisition of Zimbra. In contrast there was little attention paid to the SourceFire. [...]

ClamAV, Commerical, Community Leverage, MySQL, Open Source, Snort, SoureFire, Sun, Zimbra 5 Comments Read More

2008 The Year of the Acquisition: Microsoft Bids on Yahoo!, Amazon buys Audible

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Mark in LinuxToday, LinuxWorld, Open Source

Is 2008 going to be the Year of the Acquisition? Activity in 2007 was on the rise but now things seem to be at full speed. I remember when Alta Vista and Excite! were the hot search engines, my how the world has changed.  It looks like it’s narrowing down to a two horse race [...]

, acquisition, amazon, Audible, Google, Mergers, Microsoft, MySQL, Nokia, Olliance, Sun, Trolltech, Yahoo!, Zimbra 1 Comment Read More
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