Sun buys MySQL

Thursday, January 17th, 2008 Posted in comment, m&a, news | No Comments »

Two major announcements to comment on today (Sun and MySQL, and Oracle and BEA)- but they both merit separate posts. Sun has acquired MySQL AB the Swedish software company behind the ... Read more..

Also checking out Zimbra

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in mtbtos | No Comments »

Zimbra looks like a pretty rocking collaboration suite. http://www.zimbra.com/ Read more..

Open Source Groupware

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in mtbtos | No Comments »

One of the key aspects of my Move The Business To Open Source project is that any solution has to support both Linux and Windows clients - Because I just ... Read more..

Moving from Outlook to Thunderbird

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in mtbtos | No Comments »

First post on this topic. I've been using Thunderbird to connect (via Pop3) to exchange. Of course this hasn't given me calendar - so I've been using Google Calendars with the ... Read more..

A bug in OpenOffice : Things that make you go "nnnngg!"

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 Posted in mtbtos, open source | No Comments »

One aspect of moving away from one Office productivity suite to another is figuring out how to transfer all of your styles/settings/preferences etc. So far, the process has been a fairly ... Read more..

MySQL Migration toolkit rocks my world

Sunday, December 30th, 2007 Posted in app dev, aproposofnothing, open source | No Comments »

Rapture! I've just used the MySQL Migration Toolkit to move a cranky 30,000 record access DB into MySQL. And it worked a dream. I can't get over how good it was. Read more..