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Microsoft Office vs. Google Docs

In the newspaper this morning was an interesting article titled ‘Battle for Office reaches new heights‘. I like that the article mentioned the fundamental difference being that MS Office is installed locally on the Computer whereas Google Docs requires an Internet connection. Many people do not have constant Online access therefore need to be aware [...]

Oracle likes MySQL – but why?

Sun Microsystems has been acquired by Oracle Corporation (after it looked like Sun would be part of the IBM stable). Of particular interest to many bloggers and corporate Internet Application developers is what will happen with MySQL, the GNU General Public License (GPL) database engine. A Bit about MySQL MySQL was acquired by Sun in [...]