For what its worth, the MySQL folks have a Total Cost of Ownership calculator available that is interesting (if not shocking). Here’s a comparison to Microsoft SQL and Sybase: MySQL Microsoft Sybase Product Line MySQL Microsoft SQL Server Sybase ASE Product Edition Enterprise Edition (1-4 Socket Server) Enterprise Edition Enterprise Edition Pricing Model Per Server [...]
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Security in the Cloud
May 29, 2011
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CA Technologies sponsored an important survey of cloud service providers. Ponemon Institute polled 103 cloud service providers in the US and 24 in six European countries for a total of 127 separate providers for its report: “Security of Cloud Computing Providers”. The report is a “must read” if you work with cloud service providers. It [...]
Read more Amazon RDS for Oracle DB
May 25, 2011
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Amazon never stops innovating. They occasionally stumble, but they are always moving forward. As a long time AWS developer, I appreciate their willingness to push the envelope. Just announced: Amazon Relational Database Service allows you to “deploy multiple editions of Oracle Database 11g in minutes with cost-efficient and re-sizable hardware capacity”. Here’s their summary: Amazon [...]
Read more iOS Beta Builder
April 23, 2011
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iOS Beta Builder is a very useful iOS deployment tool from a very generous developer, Hanchor LLC. An excerpt from the announcement: Enter ‘iOS BetaBuilder’ – a simple MacOS X app takes your archived IPA file and creates the required manifest and HTML files for wireless distribution. It even zips up a copy of the [...]
Read more VMware’s Cloud Foundary
April 16, 2011
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I just signed up for the VMware Cloud Foundary Beta, watched the developer videos, and I’m already impressed. Cloud Foundary is “The Open Platform as a Service (PaaS)”. Their definition of ‘cloud’ is somewhat different than a lot of vendors. Their cloud can be “on your laptop on an airplane” or behind a firewall, for [...]
Read more Quartz 2.0.1 Released
April 12, 2011
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Quartz 2.0.1 released today. (About a one week turn on bug fixes to the 2.0 release.) The best “Enterprise Job Scheduler” just keeps getting better and better. The Quick Start Guide is here. Full documentation and best practices are here. From Terracotta’s release notes: Quartz 2.0. Notable features and improvements of Quartz 2.0 include a [...]
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