@@ -1,6 +1,32 @@  !!!Related News & Articles +!!2008 +* 24 February 2008: [Adobe Joins the SQLite Consortium|http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/site/2008/02/24/Adobe+Joins+the+SQLite+Consortium] + +!!2007 +* 9 October 2007: [KDE's Windows weapon: KOffice 2.0|http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1596080362] +* 7 August 2007: iWork's Numbers introduce [interesting|http://www.macworld.com/2007/08/firstlooks/flnumbers/index.php?lsrc=mwrss] way for setting up calculations using drag&drop. +* 21 June 2007: [Size isn't everything for the modest creator of SQLite|http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2107239,00.html]. "Richard Hipp's database is used by some of the biggest names in IT - but he has not made a penny from it". + +!!2006 +* December 2006: [MSA Tips for Serious Users: Converting to Access 2007|http://allenbrowne.com/Access2007.html] - What's Good, Mixed, Gone, Fixed, Broken in MSA 2007. + +* 20 November 2006: [Forrester Research: "Open source databases such as Enterprise DB, Ingres and MySQL can save enterprises up to 60 per cent over proprietary products. Average savings on the total cost of ownership are about 50 per cent. The data is based on surveys and customer interviews. Management tools tend to be less expensive than for proprietary databases from Oracle, Microsoft and IBM."|http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2168971/open-source-databases-slice] + +* 2 August 2006: [MS SQL Server vs. MySQL: Syntax differences, similar GUIs|http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1207179,00.html] - tips explaining the syntax differences between Microsoft's SQL Server and MySQL, code for a timestamp automation workaround and a talk about why it's important to keep your version of MySQL current. +* 1 August 2006: [Five common PHP database problems|http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-dbmistake/?ca=dgr-lnxw02Avoid5PHPerrors] and how to avoid them. +* 1 August 2006: [New LAMP Layer: FileMaker API for PHP?|http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=19003]: FileMaker's senior product manager Kevin Nathanson says that FileMaker is addressing two audiences with the API beta: existing users of the company's database software, and PHP developers looking for simpler database software than DBMSs such as MySQL. + +* 14 March 2006: [Five reasons why you should never^h^h^h^h^h use PostgreSQL|http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1172668,00.html] + +* 30 January 2006: [Legal problem with MS Access|http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6032870.html?tag=nl.e589]: users may need to start using a different version of MS Office as a result of a recent legal setback. "It is a significant impact [[and cost] for companies to move to a new service pack of a major program such as MS Office." + +!!2005 +* 04 December 2005: [How to get people to work for free|http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_09/recruting_people/index_p1.html] - Attracting volunteers to your free software project. + +* 07 November 2005: [Business Objects to Join Eclipse Foundation|http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Business_Objects_signals_Eclipse_move/0,2000061733,39221001,00.htm]    * 27 October 2005: [Are open source databases more secure?|http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1137482,00.html] +* 15 October 2005: [OpenOffice Base 2.0 vs. Microsoft Access 2003|http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/openoffice-base-20-vs-microsoft-access.html] by Roger Jennings, author of [Database Developer's Guide With VB6|http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0672310635/104-1842176-7654305?v=glance&n=283155]. ([part 2|http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/openoffice-base-20-vs-microsoft-access_22.html], [part3|http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/openoffice-20-base-matches-microsoft.html])  * 13 October 2005: [Kexi included in Kubuntu 5.10|http://kubuntu.org/announcements/breezy-release.php] in Linux and Windows version  ;:[Windows version|http://kubuntu.org/images/kubuntu-breezy-windows-wee.png]

@@ -28,21 +54,7 @@  * 22 April 2005: [Linux's Next Frontier: Database-Intensive Apps|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1788310,00.asp]  * 13 April 2005: [MySQL security advisory|http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-707]. !BugTraq ID 12781. CAN-2004-0957, CAN-2005-0709, CAN-2005-0710, CAN-2005-0711.  * 3 April 2005: [Database vendors turn to Linux|http://www.ameinfo.com/news/Detailed/56987.html] -* 1 April 2005: PostgreSQL in turmoil! Not really, but a good April fools gag: - As of today, the license of PostgreSQL, including all its libraries, - is changing from the unfashionable BSD license to the more popular - GPL. - Tom Lane has accepted a job at MySQL AB. He announced his departure - rather abruptly on the Hackers list yesterday: - > So long, suckers! - With the change in leadership, core team members will implement - changes to the project. One which has picked up a lot of enthusiasm - is migrating the PostgreSQL code base away from C. Bruce Momjian - explains, "C has served us pretty well for 20 years. But we think - it's time to move to a more modern, and let's face it, more popular - programming language. With the JVM testing, and the performance - degradation, and retraining, we probably won't do any development for - 2 years, but we figure it's worth a try." +* 1 April 2005: [PostgreSQL in turmoil!|http://www.postgresql.org/community/weeklynews/pwn20050401] Not really, but a good April fools gag: As of today, the license of PostgreSQL, including all its libraries, is changing from the unfashionable BSD license to the more popular GPL.    * 15 February 2005: PostgreSQL security vulnerabilites ([CAN-2005-0245|http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0245], [CAN-2005-0247|http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0247]). See also [Debian's advisory|http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-683].  * February 2005: [MySQL 4.1|http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.1.html] released. Many bug fixes, improved reliability on Mac OS X, and a slight [change to the API|http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=6149].