Forming alliances against Oracle and Sun; HP and Microsoft will give it a go

The acquisition of Sun by Oracle clearly will create a powerful combination. While many have thought, or feared, Oracle might silently do away with MySQL, others see this as a weapon that can be used to hit Microsoft where it hurts—taking on Microsoft in the low-end database market.

There seems to be a general consensus amongst database analysts that high-end enterprise class databases do not even enter into the picture when we talk about MySQL. MySQL just doesn’t compete in the market with databases such as Oracle, DB2, Sybase, etc. It would be ludicrous to think that Oracle would get rid of MySQL and try and push Oracle into small development environments, Oracle is just too big, complicated, and requires high level administrative and operational skills. The real threat here is for Oracle to beef up MySQL a bit more, but not too much, to chip away at the low-end market currently being enjoyed by Microsoft SQL Server.

more at http://www.databasejournal.com/daily_news/article.php/388130

Leveraging Logical Standby Databases in Oracle 11g Data Guard

Oracle Data Guard still offers support for the venerable logical standby database in Oracle Database 11g. This article – the eighth in this ongoing series on Oracle Data Guard – investigates how data warehouse and data mart environments can effectively leverage logical standby database features, but simultaneously provide a final destination when failover from a primary database is mandated during disaster recovery.

more at http://www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/article.php/3860251/Leveraging-Logical-Standby-Databases-in-Oracle-11g-Data-Guard.htm

Migrating a MySQL Table Using Oracle SQL Developer 1.5

Now that MySQL is joining the Oracle family, migration of MySQL to Oracle will be one of internal transfer. However this article written prior to recent developments describes the migration of MySQL to Oracle.

This article shows how you may use Oracle's most recent tool, the Oracle SQL Developer 1.5 to work with the MySQL database. An example of migrating a table in MySQL to Oracle 10G XE is described

 

http://opensource.sys-con.com/node/1266402

Another False Positive for Enterprise Software Market Growth

Right after I tell you not to get too excited about SAP's fiscal-quarter-four and full year 2009 results relative to the outlook for the overall enterprise software market, Microsoft (MSFT) blows the lid off its guidance.

So are all bets off now? Is it time to go full bore back into these enterprise software market providers plus other enterprise-software market leaders Oracle (ORCL) and IBM?

http://seekingalpha.com/article/185654-microsoft-results-another-false-positive-for-enterprise-software-market-growth