WordPress Foundation formed. Reaction to Oracle-Sun approval. And more.
WordPress Foundation formed
# Matt Mullenwag launched the WordPress Foundation.
Reaction to Oracle-Sun’s EC approval
# In a memo Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz encouraged the company’s employees to
emotionally resign from Sun.
# EnterpriseDB and PostgreSQL co-founder Bruce Momjian issued a statement on the EC’s decision to approve Oracle-Sun.
# Mike Hogan …
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Mercredi 10 Février, 11h00 (Paris) : Sécurité pour les
applications Web. Pour les startups du Web, la protection et
la sécurisation de leurs applications, de leurs données, et de
celles de leurs clients est un véritable facteur clé de
succès. Ce Webinar couvre les différents challenges liés à
la sécurité ainsi que les solutions associées telles que
l'encryption, l'authentification, les certificats, la
sécurisation du stockage et le stockage à tolérance de panne, les
environnements étanches. Les architectes de Sun Startup
Essentials présenteront des implémentations économiques basées
sur des composents standards et ouverts tel qu'Apache, MySQL et
ZFS. Ce webinar fait partie de l'accompagnement du programme
Sun
Startup Essentials et est réservé à ses
membres.
Votre société a moins de 6 ans et moins de 150 …
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Mercredi 10 Février, 11h00 (Paris) : Sécurité pour les
applications Web. Pour les startups du Web, la protection et
la sécurisation de leurs applications, de leurs données, et de
celles de leurs clients est un véritable facteur clé de
succès. Ce Webinar couvre les différents challenges liés à
la sécurité ainsi que les solutions associées telles que
l'encryption, l'authentification, les certificats, la
sécurisation du stockage et le stockage à tolérance de panne, les
environnements étanches. Les architectes de Sun Startup
Essentials présenteront des implémentations économiques basées
sur des composents standards et ouverts tel qu'Apache, MySQL et
ZFS. Ce webinar fait partie de l'accompagnement du programme
Sun
Startup Essentials et est réservé à ses
membres.
Votre société a moins de 6 ans et moins de 150 …
[Read more]Topics for this podcast:
*Open source in consumer devices
*VMware-Zimbra deal highlights open source, cloud
*A capitalist’s guide to open source licensing
*Latest on Oracle-Sun-MySQL, M&A implications
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VMware confirms Zimbra buy. Facebook sponsors Apache Foundation. And more.
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Identi.ca
“Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have
to.”
For the latest on Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL via Sun, see Everything you always wanted to know about MySQL but were afraid to ask
# VMware confirmed its acquisition of Zimbra from Yahoo.
# Facebook became a gold sponsor of the Apache Foundation and outlined its …
[Read more]Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 12 (LAMP)
LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Fedora 12 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
I ran into an interesting issue when installing Wordpress on my re-installed server, I could not get a database connection during installation. I added some debugging and discovered that I had a "Can't connect to MySQL server on" error returned after the call to mysql_connect() in PHP.
To check the source of the issue I then tried to connect on the command-line using the mysql client, which occurred successfully, confirming that I was using the correct credentials and host address (this was a remote MySQL server).
I next created a test PHP script with a simple mysql_connect() call, and executed it with "php test.php" from the command-line, which was also successful.
Finally I accessed test.php through a browser, where again the connection failed.
So I was dealing with a situation where it was Apache in particular that was unable to connect to the remote MySQL server. Thanks to …
[Read more]Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2010.0 (LAMP)
LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Mandriva 2010.0 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
Sun updates Java platform. Red Hat open sources SPICE. And more.
Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory on Twitter and
Identi.ca
“Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have
to.”
For the latest on Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL via Sun, see Everything you always wanted to know about MySQL but were afraid to ask
# Sun has released Java Platform EE 6, Glassfish 3, and NetBeans 6.8.
# Red Hat released its …
[Read more]Banking on open source. Open source as a business model. And more.
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For the latest on Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL via Sun, see Everything you always wanted to know about MySQL but were afraid to ask
Banking on open source
# CIOL.com reported on the benefits of Standard Chartered
Bank’s open source-based core banking system.
Open source as a business model
The “open source has failed as a …