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Is MySQL usage really declining?
Matthew Aslett, January 23, 2012 @ 12:12 pm ETIf you’re a MySQL user, tell us about your adoption plans by taking our current survey. Back in late 2009, at the height of the concern about Oracle’s imminent acquisition of Sun Microsystems and MySQL, 451 Research conducted a survey of open source software users to assess their database usage and attitudes towards Oracle. The [...]
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CAOS Theory Podcast 2012.01.20
Jay Lyman, January 20, 2012 @ 3:24 pm ETTopics for this podcast: *Hadoop v1.0 and year ahead *Oracle-Cloudera deal for more Hadoop *Oracle’s ‘Sun spot’ with Solaris *Open Source M&A outlook for 2012 *Our new MySQL/NoSQL/NewSQL survey iTunes or direct download (28:49, 4.9MB)
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451 Research MySQL/NoSQL/NewSQL survey
Matthew Aslett, January 18, 2012 @ 11:02 am ETI’ve just launched a new survey that should be of interest if you are currently using or actively considering MySQL or any of the NoSQL or NewSQL offerings The aim of the survey is threefold: – identify trends in database usage over time – explore changing attitudes to MySQL following its acquisition by Oracle – [...]
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2012 to be year of Linux domination
Jay Lyman, January 5, 2012 @ 2:10 pm ETPreviously, I’ve called out years for non-desktop Linux in 2008, Linux in both the low and high-ends of the market in 2009, ‘hidden’ Linux in 2010 and last year, cloud computing in 2011. For 2012, I see continued growth, prevalence, innovation and impact from Linux, thus leading to a 2012 that is dominated by Linux. [...]
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