COMMENTARY--Quietly, in what sometimes seems like stealth mode, Linux systems have been moving from the front end of e-commerce to the back end. The commerce-grade Linux database has come of age. As ...

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IBM announced Wednesday that it is rolling out a new version of its database software for Linux and Unix customers. The DB2 Universal Database version 8.2, code-named Stinger, is designed to ...

Consolidating disparate databases for easier management and moving to Linux to save money are among the top issues for Oracle database users, according to a recent survey of members of the Independent ...

The popularity continues to grow for Linux as an enterprise server operating system, as well as a platform for running large database servers. Gartner recently announced that Linux was the fastest ...

When it comes to building extreme scale computing platforms, there are plenty of system design options but in supercomputing, the only practical choice for an OS is Linux. A team from MIT and Sandia ...

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In previous articles, I have discussed XML’s value as a data format for Linux users. I have also discussed a wide variety of Linux tools for processing XML. But the data that XML usually represents ...

When you think of databases usually MySQL or Oracle or even Microsoft SQL Server come to mind. Yet, object oriented databases have the potential to cut down coding nuts and bolts and speed up app ...

Linux was by far the fastest-growing database platform, growing 84 percent, according to newly released Gartner numbers. The open-source database segment grew 47 percent over the year, said Gartner ...