First Sun Microsystems purchases the open source database system MySQL for $1 billion a few months ago. Then Sun and Ubuntu are in the proverbial bed together (which is awesome by the way). Now Sun is close sourcing part of MySQL? It's not as bad as you think.

I've recently began working on a new project [when I have time] called Fuzzy Warehouse, I've been working on it with a friend of mine. It [will originally start] is an inventory tracking system complete with email. For right now it kinda hanging in the balance as I haven't had a lot of time [hurray for a new job!]

So I recently converted my work server over from Fedora Core 4 to Debian 4.0 (Etch). I figured it would be better to have an operating system that does not have a six month release cycle, that way it wouldn't be out dated and would still have support. The conversion went well, everything works, except the unixODBC and FreeTDS bridge I had on Fedora.

Anyone can set up a server in their own home if they wanted to, I mean it's not that hard, there are a million "how-to" guides on the internet. You can easily set up a LAMP setup within minutes. But what about in a large corporation with a huge server farm which have an "unlimited" budget?

With the every growing world of the information and the web and with more and more people coming online, there is a great demand for internationalization for web sites.

In my previous entry, I stated that I had an issue with PHP connecting to and talking to MSSQL (specifically SQL Server 2000). And after reading countless blog entry's, articles, white papers and just general comments and notes, taking in and absorbing all that I read, I finally managed to get it working!

Can open source play nice with Closed Source? Some would have you believe so, but I'm starting to believe differently.