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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) planned on Monday to announce its move into a new business, unveiling a database software that works with a rival to its Windows operating system, a ...

Some observers attribute the growth of Linux servers to the migration of lower-end platforms, such as old Windows NT or Novell file and print boxes, to Linux. The open source operating system is still ...

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 ...

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) ...

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Sybase has released a free production database for Linux. The database maker announced on Wednesday the availability of a version of its Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) database for Linux. David ...

In previous articles, I have discussed XML’s value as a data format for Linux users. I have also discussed a wide variety of Linux tools for processing XML. But the data that XML usually represents ...

Canonical is offering enterprises a chance to try cloud computing via a virtual appliance that bundles Ubuntu Linux with the IBM DB2 Express-C database running on the Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud ...

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 ...