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JavaOne: Sun backs off plan to charge for MySQL backup features
It's reserving the right to close the source code and to reserve some features for paying customers, but for now Sun Microsystems appears to have eased off its previously announced and remarkably unpopular plan to charge for more basic functionality. Read more...

Tibco airs SOA plans

Sun plans job cuts, blames weak Q3 results on U.S. economy

Oracle acquisition of BEA closes

Researcher finds new way to hack Oracle database

How to turbocharge your Web site by dumping your database

Mickos: Sun may back off -- at least a bit -- on controversial plan for MySQL add-ons

MySQL reserves features for paying customers; open-source community up in arms

Okla. agency site plugs coding error that left data exposed

MySQL upgrade now slated for June, Sun says

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Pay As You Go
A construction firm busts through piles of invoices with pro forma statements issued once a month.

Review: 4 online databases let you structure and share your data
If you want to create a solid relational database that includes the ability to easily share and collaborate, you might want to try one of these four Web-based database services.

The Economics of Energy
Tiny forecasting errors can cost energy firms millions. Direct Energy's software offers precision.

FAQ: Microsoft's SQL Server Data Services
For data junkies, Microsoft's announced SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) is a big deal, and one that legitimizes -- and may transform -- the nascent market for cloud-based databases. We look at the facts and ask how the company will play in the same sandbox with Amazon, the open-source community and more.

Keep Traffic Flowing
Mark Hall hears about software designed to keep a city's traffic controls safe from hackers.

The Art of Cataloging Art
The Getty Vocabularies, a 2007 winner in the annual Computerworld Honors program, is an online searchable database used by art historians to research art and architecture.

Secrets of rock star programmers
In this excerpt from a new book of interviews with rock star developers, Rod Johnson, CEO of SpringSource, explains his discovery that Java is better than C++ and lists some character attributes of successful developers.

Navigating Info Overload


Good Deals
Recent mergers will give IT better choices for managing customer data, argues Frank Hayes.

FAQ: Why is enterprise search harder than Google Web search?
In addition to the other things it has changed in the world, Google has profoundly raised users' expectations for other search technology. So why is it so much harder to get search right at the enterprise level? Our FAQ explains.

Specialists have retrieved about 99% of the data on a disk drive on board the crashed space shuttle Columbia. Don't miss the photographs of the recovered drive.
These big ideas were supposed to revolutionize technology, but they never actually appeared. In a few cases, you'll be glad they didn't.
Nearly 20 years after the first Internet worm, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols takes stock of the malware/anti-malware landscape and spotlights how the two sides are approaching the battle.
Though some thought it was released too soon, Mac OS X 10.5 has matured into a solid operating system, says reviewer Michael DeAgonia.
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Four years from now, the IT field will be a vastly different place. Will you be ready?
The New Foundation of Storage: Xiotech's Intelligent Storage Element
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