The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, is announcing that DocumentDB-a fast-growing open source document database from Microsoft-has joined the ...

2010 was a very good year for open source databases, with the top RDBMSs like Oracle's MySQL and PostgreSQL showing momentum with impressive customer gains and new releases that delivered much-desired ...

Open-source might not be the first thing you think of with Windows, but these free tools can seriously boost your productivity.

Applications such as Web serving, DNS, e-mail, and file and print serving are deployed as open source software running on open source operating systems. However, open source has made fewer gains ...

Open-source databases MySQL and PostgreSQL are gaining steam, but rip-and-replace situations where MySQL and PostgreSQL replace Oracle Database, IBM DB2 or Microsoft SQL Server databases remain rare.

Free and open-source software is making a splash in the world of databases. But is it reliable enough for your critical applications? Written by Simon Sharwood, Contributor June 17, 2004, 9:02 p.m. PT ...

Acceptance of the commercial open-source model is more evident than ever. The database is, and will always be, a critical component of the application stack, OGrady said.

1. Support You get a higher level of support with a commercial database than an open source database. Commercial databases provide professional 24/7/365 support, while open source databases provide a ...

Database company Ingres is creating a package of its namesake open-source database and a version of Linux, a combination it hopes will appeal to hosted application providers.

EnterpriseDB aims to put open-source database software on more blue-chip servers through a forthcoming product that offers compatibility with some Oracle database applications.