Since JAVA was officially introduced in 1995, it has changed the way most of us look at the Operating System. Bill Gate (how ironic) once said that it was not about the hardware but the software which will be the future. A decade or more later, the fifth employee of SUN, John Gage said "The Network is the Computer".

The db4o team reinforces its commitment to the open source community by upgrading their GPL license in an effort to stay compatible with the increasing number of GPLv3 adopters. Even though support will continue for the older license version GPLv2, the team hopes this move will inspire free software projects to go with GPL v3 when using db4o!

This book should be on the shelf of all Oracle Database professionals. It covers all of the Oracle 10g/11g utilities. A must have in my opinion.

Installation of php,apache & mysql in Ubuntu 9.10 in easy steps

There are many reasons for designing and implementing data base schemas that are portable. This post outlines the reasons why you should be writing portable data, and provides advice on how you can make this task easier.

Recently, there has been a lot of buzz about “No SQL” databases. Seemingly this buzz comes from people who are proponents of document-style stores and key-value stores. There are two possible reasons to move to either of these alternate DBMS technologies: performance and flexibility. This blog posting considers the performance argument; a subsequent posting will address the flexibility argument.

Alright people, this was a long introduction but I believe it is worth it. You cannot create web services such as SOAP in the Google App Engine therefore, in this short article, I will show you how to develop a ReST based web services that works with the App Engine using NetBeans and Jersey API. Actually, NetBeans comes with Jersey support out the box.

Recently, there has been a lot of chitchat about the eventual consistency model as illustrated in the famous Amazon Dynamo paper, and today employed by several non-relational databases such as Voldemort or Cassandra.