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Open Source Year 2008 in Review: More Adoption, Success, Innovation, and Alternatives
Posted 21 Dec 2008 by Optaros Tags: Acquia, Acquisition, Ajax, Alfresco, CIO, Community, Content Management, CRM, Customer Relationship Management, DiSo, Django, Drupal, ECM, Ecommerce, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Open Source Directory, EOS, Europe, iPhone, IT Strategy, Java, JBoss, Liferay, Magento, MySQL, Open, Open Source, Open Source Katalog, OpenID, Portal, RIA, Spring, SpringSource, Sugar CRM, Yahoo!

2008 was an important year for Open Source and a successful one in addition. We have seen more adoption, more commercial success, more innovation, more collaboration and more options for the IT buyer. And it’s not the end, more success is still to come. The following paragraphs are summarizing what we have seen in the last 12 months.Accelerated Adoption of Open Source + Read more

Here Comes the MySQL
Posted 17 Jan 2008 by John EckmanTags: MySQL, Open Source

Big news on the MySQL front. + Read more

Concurrency and Transaction Isolation in MySQL
Posted 10 Jan 2008 by Bobby BeckmannTags: Architecture, MySQL

Often, when a site allows users to add and update content, you run into concurrency issues. We recently ran into a problem where double clickers were causing two transactions to fire. For most of the system, this is fine, but many parts of our system use a "get_or_create" method to create records. We were getting several instances of duplicate records where two concurrent requests were calling get_or_create at the same time and both creating records. We first tried to solve this problem with a simple "select ... + Read more