Data Conversion

Two vendors released their commercial offerings based on very popular open source products. Earlier this month, Acquia released commercial Drupal which is a collection of popular 3rd party applications packaged with Drupal to extend its social publishing capabilities. Liferay

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology I'm starting to gather the data from my survey. When I get all the data gathered, I will post it as a downloadable file. Until then, I will post some summary data. This data shows the current PRIMARY d...

If you ever wanted to have a web presence for yourself or your business, there was never any dearth of choices. There are many service providers which let you create web sites quickly using templates and wizards. Google Sites, Google Pages, Yahoo/Tripod/Geocities all let you create such web sites. However, if you wanted to create a site that could be viewed on a PDA or mobile, it was not that easy.

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology Sun just announced MySQL Workbench, a new database design tool for MySQL developers and DBAs. I'm a data modeling tool junkie. I like to play with any I can get my hands on. I've

EnterpriseDB News at Blogspot Chris Keene, the CEO for Wavemaker just blogged that combining Wavemaker and EnterpriseDB just got easier. Wavemaker has a new version that has out of the box support for both Postgres and EnterpriseDB. I wrote a couple of weeks

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology Have you heard of Plaxo? I've been a member for a while though I'm not a heavy user. Plaxo is sort of a social networking address book. It's a decent little site. Have you heard of Comcast? They're sort of

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology Do you know which open source feature is the most important? Do you know which open source database rocks and which one sucks? Is MySQL better than Postgres? Is Ingres worth considering? How does Firebird compare? Have you used, or have you considered using, an open source database?

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology I mentioned the other day that I was playing with a new GUI builder from an EnterpriseDB partner, Wavemaker. Wavemaker, in addition to providing the software, provides

This week I presented on "how to destroy your open source community" for JavaOne. It may be the most popular presentation I've done yet.

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology I wrote some time ago that I had bought a new laptop. My old one had died. I didn't need to transfer any files (couldn't actually, the hard drive was toast) but I had my backups so I didn't lose any data. The