Peter Wayner

Oracle's control of the MySQL copyright could create new licensing headaches and bundling limits for customers. Things you should know if your organization relies on the open source database

Neo4j, Cassandra, and FluidDB represent a breed of databases that swiftly search social networking data. What you should know about each of them

The year that loved smartphones, scripting languages, the cloud, and open source was not always kind to developers. Check out these winner and losers of 2009

How will the world of dynamic programming and Web applications look five years from now?

In the distant past,

During the past few years, PHP has grown to be more than just a simple tag-centered scripting language for neophyte Web designers who want to do a bit of programming. A quick survey of the breadth and depth of the open source projects using the language shows that people can and will build enterprise-grade applications with the embedded tags. Now Zend Technologies, the company steering the language, is rolling out more tools to support the enterprise-grade servers that run these more serious applications.

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