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 ...

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When it comes to building extreme scale computing platforms, there are plenty of system design options but in supercomputing, the only practical choice for an OS is Linux. A team from MIT and Sandia ...

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 ...

Relational database management systems (RDBMSs) aren’t the sort of thing to get most folk out of bed in the morning – unless, of course, you happen to think they’re one of the most brilliant concepts ...

Renault's Formula 1 team is one of the first to test the database software Microsoft has produced a version of its database software that runs on the rival Linux operating system. The version of SQL ...

In previous articles, I have discussed XML’s value as a data format for Linux users. I have also discussed a wide variety of Linux tools for processing XML. But the data that XML usually represents ...