Where Oracle's Applications Stack Sees Red Ink, Its Customers See Opportunity - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership

Where Oracle's Applications Stack Sees Red Ink, Its Customers See Opportunity - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership: "The timing of all this is beneficial for Oracle customers: The end of Oracle's fiscal year arrives soon (May 31), and buyers may now have more leverage to sign very favorable end-of-year deals.

'Oracle provides the sweetest discounts and deals as it approaches its fiscal fourth quarter,' notes a March 2009 Forrester Research report (subscription required). 'Forrester has seen indications that Oracle is displaying a growing willingness to provide incentives for new licenses, creative implementation proposals by Oracle Consulting, free training and vendor-led financing.'"

MySQL Admin and Development Tools Round Up | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine

MySQL Admin and Development Tools Round Up | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine

Test Center: Slacker databases break all the old rules | InfoWorld | Review | 2009-03-24 | By Peter Wayner

Test Center: Slacker databases break all the old rules | InfoWorld | Review | 2009-03-24 | By Peter Wayner: "Amazon SimpleDB, Apache CouchDB, Google App Engine, and Persevere, offering far greater simplicity than SQL, may have a better way of storing data for your Web app"

Coding Errors that Affect Security: Sort by Language, Phyla, or Kingdom - ReadWriteWeb

Support all the usual suspects, but also PLSQL/TSQL. Interesting! (And needed)

Coding Errors that Affect Security: Sort by Language, Phyla, or Kingdom - ReadWriteWeb: "Enter Fortify, a software security company that has organized security issues by both vulnerability category and by language so developers can easily ascertain the types of errors that have an impact on security."

eWEEK Labs on IBM-Sun: Databases Would Feed Off Each Other

eWEEK Labs on IBM-Sun: Databases Would Feed Off Each Other: "So, one might assume that IBM would do the same thing with MySQL, continuing it as a separate product. MySQL, in turn, could inherit some technology from DB2 and even Informix.

However, according to a report in late 2007, six years after the acquisition of Informix, the number of Informix installations dropped drastically, to 20,000, with no information from IBM about where these users went. (Did they migrate to IBM’s own DB2 product? Did they switch to a competing product from Oracle or Microsoft?)

Should MySQL customers worry that they might find themselves forced to choose another product?"