IT teams have a fundamental choice when designing and building data management environments: Go with open source database technology or buy commercial software. Each option comes with benefits and ...

In conjunction with the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo next week, Big Blue is expected to detail the open-source initiative, code-named Derby, according to a source familiar with IBM’s plans. The ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

The expected announcement calls for the management software company to make the source code for its Ingres database on Linux available for download within 90 days. Computer Associates will also offer ...

Open-source software has reshaped many IT disciplines, and the world of database administration (DBA) is no exception. The open-source community, and the software it has produced, has evolved into a ...

Telangana’s MeeSeva’s switch from Oracle to PostgreSQL illustrates potential cost savings and the challenges of migrating critical government systems to open source.

Many IT industry professionals use DB-Engines to track the popularity of database products. The ranking criteria includes measuring the number of references to different products on industry websites, ...

Within a decade, open source databases were completely mainstream. Of the top five database platforms listed by DB-Engines as of 2018, three—MongoDB, MySQL and Postgres—were open source. However, in ...

Raising its stakes in open-source software, IBM plans to create an open-source project around Cloudscape, a specialized Java database, CNET News.com has learned. In conjunction with the LinuxWorld ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...