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The company on Friday posted a "freebie" version of its 10g product to the Oracle Technical Network (OTN). Oracle Database 10g Express Edition, or XE, targets hobbyists, new database developers and ...

In a Facebook engineering blog, Steaphan Greene, a Facebook software engineer, announced the creation of a new MySQL branch: WebScaleSQL. This is a version of Oracle's MySQL for gigantic database ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

I'm a corporate software developer, so the free software world of PHP, MySQL and stuff is all new to me. <BR><BR>For the last week, I've been playing around with a lot of free software, and for the ...

Looking skyward, most people see clouds, the sun, the moon. MySQL CEO Marten Mickos sees a giant database. The CEO of the open source database company isn’t talking about hallucinatory giant SQL ...