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 ...

In a bid to expand the customer base for its database software, Sybase released on Tuesday a free, limited version of its software for deployment on Linux systems. In a bid to expand the customer base ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oracle has posted the certification of the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 on the IBM System z platform, Red Hat announced. The certification of Oracle 11gR2 on Red Hat ...

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 ...