Apple has decided to discontinue its support of the open source ZFS file system. ZFS had been touted as the best emerging file system for the near future, so why would Apple discontinue ZFS after throwing its support behind it? I think there are 4 possibilities.

Read the rest of this entry »

Today, Oracle announced the acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Many developers are now very worried about the future of the ubiquitous MySQL database system which is currently owned by Sun. However, the Oracle acquisition of Sun can only mean good things for MySQL.

Read the rest of this entry »