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2008

• 24 February 2008: Adobe Joins the SQLite Consortium

2007

• 9 October 2007: KDE's Windows weapon: KOffice 2.0
• 7 August 2007: iWork's Numbers introduce interesting way for setting up calculations using drag&drop.
• 21 June 2007: Size isn't everything for the modest creator of SQLite. "Richard Hipp's database is used by some of the biggest names in IT - but he has not made a penny from it".

2006

• December 2006: MSA Tips for Serious Users: Converting to Access 2007 - What's Good, Mixed, Gone, Fixed, Broken in MSA 2007.

• 20 November 2006: Forrester Research: "Open source databases such as Enterprise DB, Ingres and MySQL can save enterprises up to 60 per cent over proprietary products. Average savings on the total cost of ownership are about 50 per cent. The data is based on surveys and customer interviews. Management tools tend to be less expensive than for proprietary databases from Oracle, Microsoft and IBM."

• 2 August 2006: MS SQL Server vs. MySQL: Syntax differences, similar GUIs - tips explaining the syntax differences between Microsoft's SQL Server and MySQL, code for a timestamp automation workaround and a talk about why it's important to keep your version of MySQL current.
• 1 August 2006: Five common PHP database problems and how to avoid them.
• 1 August 2006: New LAMP Layer: FileMaker API for PHP?: FileMaker's senior product manager Kevin Nathanson says that FileMaker is addressing two audiences with the API beta: existing users of the company's database software, and PHP developers looking for simpler database software than DBMSs such as MySQL.

• 14 March 2006: Five reasons why you should never^h^h^h^h^h use PostgreSQL

• 30 January 2006: Legal problem with MS Access: users may need to start using a different version of MS Office as a result of a recent legal setback. "It is a significant impact [and cost] for companies to move to a new service pack of a major program such as MS Office."

2005

• 04 December 2005: How to get people to work for free - Attracting volunteers to your free software project.

• 07 November 2005: Business Objects to Join Eclipse Foundation

• 27 October 2005: Are open source databases more secure?
• 15 October 2005: OpenOffice Base 2.0 vs. Microsoft Access 2003 by Roger Jennings, author of Database Developer's Guide With VB6. (part 2, part3)
• 13 October 2005: Kexi included in Kubuntu 5.10 in Linux and Windows version

• 03 October 2005: Trojan horse uses unpatched MS Office hole exploiting a MS Access Jet Database Engine buffer overflow

• 26 September 2005: (StarOffice 8 Base) is not something we'd like to be using on a regular basis
• 20 September 2005: Enter OpenFormula: OpenDocument office suites lack formula compatibility
• 17 September 2005: Macros an obstacle to office suite compatibility, see also this thread

• 15 September 2005: Why OpenDocument Won (and Microsoft Office Open XML Didn’t)
• 13 September 2005: MSO 12 GUI preview, with MSA Screenshot

• 27 July 2005: MySQL Live Backup
• 27 July 2005: MySQL security vulnerability CAN-2005-2096
• 14 July 2005: "56.2% of Software Developers use Open Source. Many users gravitate toward open source or consider it because of the perception of lower cost. But, when someone chooses open source software, they're choosing it based on technical requirements."
• 1 June 2005: "Switching costs for databases are high; if they weren't, I doubt Oracle would be No. 1 today." EnterpriseDB Fails to Ignite PostgreSQL Community

• 18 May 2005: MS sued over Access/Excel data-linking technology ($500M)
• 18 May 2005: Winners of CA's Ingres Million Dollar Challenge announced. Open Source developers delivered migration toolkits from Oracle, MS SQL Server and MySQL to Ingres. Can be valuable as a comaparison with Kexi migration tools.
• 9 May 2005: eWeek: OpenOffice 2.0 Faces Opposition over Its Use of Java
• 5 May 2005: OpenRPT (report writer and rendering engine) source code availability
• 3 May 2005 Two PostgreSQL security vulnerabilities announced

• 28 April 2005: FirebirdSQL gaining popularity.
• 22 April 2005: Linux's Next Frontier: Database-Intensive Apps
• 13 April 2005: MySQL security advisory. BugTraq ID 12781. CAN-2004-0957, CAN-2005-0709, CAN-2005-0710, CAN-2005-0711.
• 3 April 2005: Database vendors turn to Linux
• 1 April 2005: PostgreSQL in turmoil! Not really, but a good April fools gag: As of today, the license of PostgreSQL, including all its libraries, is changing from the unfashionable BSD license to the more popular GPL.

• 15 February 2005: PostgreSQL security vulnerabilites (CAN-2005-0245, CAN-2005-0247). See also Debian's advisory.
• February 2005: MySQL 4.1 released. Many bug fixes, improved reliability on Mac OS X, and a slight change to the API.
• February 2005: PLJava 1.0.1 released. PLJava is an add on module to the PostgreSQL backend. It allows functions and triggers can be written in Java using your favorite Java IDE and installed into the database. This release resolves a couple of important security issues, the most important being that PLJava now is a trusted language. Might be relevant to KexiDataMigrationAndSharing, section 5.

• February 2005: Sun floats open-source database idea. Three page story.

• January 2005: PostgreSQL 8.0 released New features include a port to Win32 (Installer), savepoints; Point-in-Time recovery; Tablespaces; improved buffer management; a new server-side Perl language; CSV support for COPY; and ALTER TABLE can now change a column's type. internetnews.com story