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SQL Injection and Little Bobby Tables: How to Protect Your CMS
If your eyes glazed over at the recent announcement of an “SQL injection” vulnerability in WordPress, take heart. You’re not alone. SQL injection attacks are a common kind of security flaw, but are subtle enough that it’s hard for regular folks to understand what’s at risk.
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Oracle Collaborate Round-up 2011: MySQL 5.6 Development Milestone Release
It's Collaborate time again. Not enterprise collaborate as we normally know it, but Oracle’s Collaborate conference, where we get a look at some of the things it has been working on since Open World last September. In today’s round-up there is the first MySQL 5.
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SkySQL Enters the MySQL Market, Tries to Compete with Oracle
A few months ago, we’ve pondered the future of MySQL post the Oracle/Sun acquisition. Our verdict was: the MySQL market was where it was getting hot, with MySQL caught in crossfire. The MySQL kitchen just got even hotter with more cooks joining. Meet SkySQL – a company built by
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Oracle Unveils MySQL 5.5, Says Goodbye to OpenSolaris Brand #oow10
At this week’s Oracle Open World show in San Francisco, Oracle made it clear they will continue to invest in MySQL. By unveiling the release candidate for MySQL 5.
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Aegir - A Ruler Brings Sanity to Drupal Web CMS Kingdom
If you have a sprawling collection of Drupal (news, site) Web CMS-based sites, it's easy for admin tasks -- such as patch management -- to get out of hand. Fortunately, there's help in a program called Aegir. In Norse mythology, Aegir was the god of the
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#10c Sun Is Key For IOUG At Oracle Collaborate 10
This year’s COLLABORATE 10 conference is the first since Oracle (news, site) acquired Sun. So it's the first time that users of both can get together officially and compare notes. Speaking about the Sun deal, Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) president Ian Abramson says the result will
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#drupalcon Keeping Up with Twitter
This year for Drupalcon, the organizers felt a little cross-pollination was in order. There are multiple talks that don't in fact feature Drupal (news, site ) at all. Instead, the topics revolve around things that the Drupal community can learn from.
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Ex-MySQL CEO Gets a New Gig at Cloud Startup Eucalyptus
A story with an apparently broken embargo -- that moved us to revisit the science of media embargoes -- brought the news that Marten Mickos, the former CEO of MySQL (which recently ended up in hands of Oracle as part of the Sun acquisition) became the CEO of open source
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Sun Microsystems Chief Open Source Officer Leaves Oracle
March 8 turned out to be Simon Phipps' last day at Sun (news, site) / Oracle (news, site). What does that mean for his pet projects, and Oracle's plans for Sun's open source properties? It's Been Quite a Ride When looking back at Phipps' time with Sun, he's overseen the
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Oracle + Sun: What it Means for Content Management
After many intellectual property and anti-trust concerns, one of the biggest deals in the technology space has been approved. Sun fans wipe their tears, as Oracle (news, site) chooses a new motto "Software. Hardware. Complete." -- aiming to provide a full stack of storage,
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Quick Peek - Joomla 1.6 Pre Release, Released
The next major version of Joomla (news, site ), Joomla 1.6, is available in pre-release.
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XOOPS Wins 2008 OSSContest Award
XOOPS, the PHP and MySQL based Web CMS, is hitting the news again. This time XOOPS China has won the main award for excellence in creative application at the annual China OSSContest. The award will be presented at the Xiyuan Hotel in Beijing, China on Jan 13, 2009,
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How To: Running WordPress with SQL Anywhere
SQL Anywhere is a simple, powerful database with some interesting features. It has a small footprint, is self-managed and fully functional, and it provides many of the features of an enterprise database but can run on commodity hardware with a minimal amount of administration.
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Open Source Opens Checkbooks
Automattic gets a US $29.5M round of Series B funding. Alfresco secures a US $9M round of Series C funding. Sun Microsystems pays a cool US $1 Billion for MySQL. What's the common thread? The flagship products for Automattic (Wordpress), Alfresco (Alfresco Enterprise Content Management), and MySQL (MySQL Database) are all open source applications. The
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