There was good news for Linux enthusiasts from the database front last week, as enterprise Linux suppliers and database vendors made some deals. Oracle announced that its key wares for business data ...

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 ...

Sybase said today that it has struck a deal with IBM in which Big Blue will market and distribute Sybase’s Linux database management software IBM will market the Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) ...

The market for database server software, seen as a barometer of overall software market health, grew slightly last year, fueled in part by sales of Linux. Overall sales of relational database software ...

Shares of Red Hat Inc., the world’s biggest distributor of Linux computer software, took their largest fall in seven years after Oracle Corp. said it would begin offering competing services at a lower ...

IBM and Sybase have teamed to add support for Sybase’s database software on IBM’s eServer OpenPower Linux servers. The two companies said they will jointly sell and market their products. The move ...

Linux is on a five-year maturity model (currently at mid-Year 3). This compares with Unix, which took more than 10 years to mature. A key driver that helps shorten the Linux maturity cycle is ...

Running Linux software on a Mac can be a powerful way to leverage the strengths of both operating systems. Here are six methods to achieve this, each with detailed steps and considerations. MacPorts ...

Hash-based systems that store data as key/value pairs. That includes popular Unix database tools like Berkeley DB, DBM, and GDBM. Hierarchical databases, once an especially popular format on mainframe ...

The vast majority of smartphones in the world ship with some version of Google’s Android operating system. And most of them are only supported by their manufacturers for a few years. Have a phone that ...

The company has been demonstrating the technology for some time, but this is the first commercially available implementation, a spokeswoman said. The technology will be available with DB2 for Linux ...