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First MySQL 5.5 Beta Released 95

joabj writes "While MySQL is the subject of much high-profile wrangling between the EU and Oracle (and the MySQL creator himself), the MySQL developers have been quietly moving the widely-used database software forward. The new beta version of MySQL, the first publicly available, features such improvements as near-asynchronous replication and more options for partitioning. A new release model has been enacted as well, bequeathing this version the title of 'MySQL Server 5.5.0-m2.' Downloads here."

Comment Re:Clocking It (Score 1) 428

I've been using it for a couple of years and it is great. I can generate invoices for clients with it and keep track of all the different tasks that make up my projects.

I don't really use the gantt features.

The hosted version at www.clockingit.com hasn't really changed recently (which isn't a bad thing). There is a development version at git hub

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Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac 398

plasmacutter writes "The Video Lan dev team has recently come forward with a notice that the number of active developers for the project's MacOS X releases has dropped to zero, prompting a halt in the release schedule. There is now a disturbing possibility that support for Mac will be dropped as of 1.1.0. As the most versatile and user-friendly solution for bridging the video compatibility gap between OS X and windows, this will be a terrible loss for the Mac community. There is still hope, however, if the right volunteers come forward."

Comment Re:well (Score 1) 443

as far as I can remember slashdot was the first site (that I became a member of) with
- rounded corners on images! web2.0!
- user contributed content as the main attraction! web2.0!
- advantages to creating an account: saving your comment viewing preferences (why i signed up), and accumulating karma
- a concept of karma for contributing, this is everywhere now,accumulate points, merit badges etc

was slashdot the first web2.0 site!

Comment Re:oracle would be stupid not to say those things (Score 1) 156

Was Mysql even a factor in them purcashing sun?

if sun paid 1 billion for mysql and oracle paid 7 billion for sun, it is 1/7th of the deal right?

If 1/7th of the deal is holding up the rest of it, they'll do whatever they can to get the other 6/7ths through, including dumping money into an open source project.

They didn't really buy Sun for Mysql right, solaris, java, the sun servers and processors have got to have had way more appeal for Oracle, which already has the best database, than an already GPL'd project.

If they wanted to start an oracle version of mysql and lavish money upon it, they could have done that without buying sun!

Comment Re:Fork? (Score 1) 156

They pledge to spend upwards of 24 million a year on developing and improving mysql for the next three years.

What fork is going to be able to out pace the oracle version with all that money, which ought to mean developer hours, lavished upon it?

The press release says they will continue releasing GPL community editions in lockstep with enterprise editions.

Fork it when they stop pouring money and developer hours from the best database company out there into the project.

MySQL might get better under oracle, and if it doesn't all, pick and choose from the GPL codebase, right?

Comment Re:This has taken too long (Score 2, Insightful) 160

perl and nice don't belong together, especially if you bring CPAN into the sentence.

When I have some retarded task that has to be done, like taking a web form and inserting the data into a PDF that has to be emailed to a few different people, or retrieving some data via FTP, verifying that it is valid and then updating some excel worksheets and emailing the new plots around as in-line images in an html formatted email, PERL can do it.

maybe PHP, ruby and python can talk to open office, ms office, do SMTP with TLS or SSL, and insert data into a PDF too. I wouldn't know because once I started with perl I never needed anything else for glue type programs.

Maybe glue is perl's niche?

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