COMMENTARY--Quietly, in what sometimes seems like stealth mode, Linux systems have been moving from the front end of e-commerce to the back end. The commerce-grade Linux database has come of age. As ...

Some observers attribute the growth of Linux servers to the migration of lower-end platforms, such as old Windows NT or Novell file and print boxes, to Linux. The open source operating system is still ...

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Microsoft Corp.MSFT will make its database software available for Linux systems. So customers currently using the open source operating system Linux (that powers nearly 25% of all the servers running ...

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Nearly one quarter of all the servers running in Microsoft's Azure cloud service are powered by the open source operating system Linux. But you can't actually run much Microsoft software on those ...

The popularity continues to grow for Linux as an enterprise server operating system, as well as a platform for running large database servers. Gartner recently announced that Linux was the fastest ...

Linux is poorly represented in this area. Multi-dimensional databases generally model data relationships more richly than relational databases do. M3’s Pick database for Linux is one example.

SAN FRANCISCO--Within the next five years, half of Oracle's customers may be running Linux, company President Charles Phillips has predicted. The open-source operating system is a key piece in filling ...