Matt Asay has the news that IBM has taken the decision to discontinue the development of the solidDB for MySQL database engine following its acquisition of in-memory database specialist Solid Information Technology. The official announcement is here on SourceForge. As Dhiren Patel, community relations manager writes: “This in-memory technology, and not Solid’s open source offering, [...]

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We have been hearing rumblings about the server operating system and its role being disrupted by virtualization as companies such as VMware push hypervisor and virtualization management software beyond the OS directly to the server. The company highlighted the shift with a series of significant pre-installation announcements during VMworld Europe last week. VMware will embed [...]

It’s not open source, but those involved with data management might be interested in my first post over at the 451′s new Too Much Information blog as it tracks the progress of H-Store, the new OLTP database project from Michael Stonebraker, who you may remember from such database projects as Ingres and PostgreSQL.

Given Jonathan Schwartz’s proclamation that Sun will make further open source acquisitions, I’ve been putting some thought into likely targets and/or new directions opened up by the MySQL acquisitions. One likely target sector is the ecosystem of vendors that surround the MySQL database – such as clustering and HA software providers – as well as [...]

First off is a new blog called Too Much Information. It covers the world of information management, by which we mean search, collaboration, content management, text analysis, archiving, electronic discovery; anything that pertains to the ongoing struggle by organizations and people to find, discover and use information effectively. It’s written mainly by our content management [...]

The Ballot Resolution Meeting to discuss the technical comments arising from the fast track process to have Microsoft’s Office Open XML formats accepted as an ISO standard was held last week in Geneva. The object of the BRM is to seek consensus on potential modifications. Opinion is divided as to whether the meeting was a [...]