Oracle rejects request it give up control of MySQL

Oracle has formally refused to restructure control of the Community Edition of MySQL, following a request that it do so from a consortium of database companies providing forks of the database, and from MySQL users. The decision comes after the consortium’s major players, Percona and VillageSQL, met Oracle earlier this month to discuss the changes…

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Drive business productivity through open collaboration, AI and document creation

Businesses of all sizes depend on “office” suites for their day-to-day tasks and for collaboration. AI, for its part, promises significant productivity gains for knowledge workers and for anyone who works with documents. According to studies, we spend over half our time using “office” software. And the global market for productivity applications is worth $22.5…

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First look: Electrobun for TypeScript-powered desktop apps

Ever since Electron’s first release, developers have both rejoiced and lamented. Electron offers a convenient way to package a web-UI application across platforms, with almost exactly the same behavior, UI/UX, and underlying codebase everywhere. But it also imposes a large memory and disk-space footprint, bundling a full copy of a web browser and JavaScript runtime…

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Pity the developers who resist agentic coding

The world of software development is changing very rapidly, and agentic coding is the catalyst. And by “very rapidly,” I mean “so fast that things are basically spinning almost out of control.” What a fantastic time to be alive. With Claude Code, I have become (if I do say so myself) a 10x developer. Sometimes it feels…

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Amazon is linking site hiccups to AI efforts

Amazon reportedly convened an engineering meeting Tuesday to discuss “a spate of outages” that are tied to the use of AI tools, according to a report in the Financial Times.  “The online retail giant said there had been a ‘trend of incidents’ in recent months, characterized by a ‘high blast radius’ and ‘gen-AI assisted changes’”…

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