Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced MySQL™ 5.4, a new version of the world’s most popular open source database, designed to deliver significant performance and scalability improvements to MySQL applications

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Sun Announces MySQL 5.4: Up To 90% Faster Response Times, and Scalability Up to 16-way x86 Servers and 64-way CMT Servers

Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt.

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Oracle to Buy Sun

Want to learn how open source software helped Barack Obama get elected president? Don’t miss the closing keynote at the MySQL Conference & Expo 2009, “Database We Can Believe In: Stories from the Front Lines (and Server Rooms) of Barack Obama’s Online Presidential Campaign.” Co-presented by Sun Microsystems and O’Reilly Media, the seventh annual MySQL Conference & Expo explores “Innovation Everywhere” April 20-23, 2009 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA

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Obama Campaign’s Web Team to Keynote This Week’s MySQL Conference & Expo

Customers benefit from higher productivity, cost savings, and an integrated suite of Zend PHP solutions, from development and testing to deployment and maintenance CUPERTINO, Calif., April 7, 2009 – Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, announced today the general availability of Zend Server, a Web application server that offers new levels of reliability, performance, and security for PHP-based Web applications. With a focus on usability and native updates, customers benefit from a complete IT-ready solution that also integrates Zend Studio for Eclipse and Zend Framework to make it faster and easier than ever before to develop and deploy rich, reliable, and secure Web applications using PHP.

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Zend Technologies Launches Zend Server for High Performance, Reliable, and Secure Deployment of PHP-Based Web Applications

First-ever Zend Server Community Edition gives developers and users an easy, all-in-one, faster way to run PHP applications CUPERTINO, Calif., April 7, 2009 – Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, announced today the general availability of Zend Server Community Edition, a web application server that offers both ease-of-use and better performance in one simple package for PHP-based Web applications. This free to download version is available now at: http://www.zend.com/products/server/downloads-all “Zend’s mission is to give customers a suite of world-class solutions built around the advantages of PHP that helps them throughout the entire Web application lifecycle, from development to production,” said Andi Gutmans, CEO and co-founder of Zend Technologies

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Zend Technologies Launches New Zend Server Community Edition as Free Download for Developers and PHP Application Users