Oracle launches MySQL 5.5 release candidate
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Has Redmond finally accepted that open source should be embraced, or are the company's recent partnerships with community-developed software providers simply another way to crack the competition? Read more
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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?
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