With all the noise about database and application software maker Oracle shelling out $5.6bn to acquire Sun Microsystems, the preview of the MySQL 5.4 relational database slipped through a lot of cracks when it was announced this week at the MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara.

If Microsoft so much as moves a finger, metaphorically, of course, someone is always there to claim it is a plot to destroy Linux and/or open-source software, or so it seems. Generally, I try to avoid commenting on these sorts of stories or promoting them at all.

"...When the heart is torn from the flax bush,
where will the bell bird sing?
You ask me, what is the most important thing on earth?
My reply is it is people, it is people, it is people ..."

GoAhead Software Moves to Open Source Business Model. GoAhead® Software today announces that it is shifting its business model and technology strategy from its proprietary SAFfire product to an open source software model. Simultaneous with the move to open source, GoAhead is announcing the acquisition of Avantellis from Emerson Network Power.

Sun may have the MySQL name, but every one has its open-source code and MySQL co-founder Monty Widenius is taking the popular open-source DBMS (database management system) and forking it in a new directions.

Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy the turkey :) Description not long enough? Really "Really" enjoy the turkey ;)

Ideas are nothing without people to give them life. That's why a Boston woman has set out to write about the people, not the software.

He raised a very valid point: Linux was easy and multimedia on Linux was easy - but only for people with solid Internet connection. Let's help people without broadband enjoy Linux.

Microsoft's very latest moves whose goal is to vacuum people's personal information/profiles/medical records