And we thought the MySQL deal was bad news...

Feb 01, 2008
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Submitted By: Justin Stanley
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Just stumbled across this bit o' news that hit the street a little while ago:

Microsoft Offers to Buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion

First of all..  Holy hell, that's a lot of money.  As the Bloomberg folks said:

Steve Ballmer is attempting the biggest-ever technology takeover after failing to compete with Google

I don't use any of Yahoo's services, not since I cured my online cribbage addiction about 10 years ago anyway, so I frankly do...

Portland January Meetup Tonight

Cookies and Lullabots at Hotel deLuxe

Jan 09, 2008
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Submitted By: Justin Stanley
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Just a little reminder for the Drupalers in the Portland/Vancouver area that the Lullabot folks will be hosting a meet-up this fine evening (Wednesday, January 9) at the Hotel deLuxe.  If bathing in a sea of Drupal experts while eating free cookies isn't enough, Jeremy and I will be there, too.

Coming Attractions

DBAs meet and Portland Ignites

Oct 16, 2007
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Submitted By: Justin Stanley
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Couple of events going down in the Portland area over the next week or two that all the cool kids are going to attend (i.e. me and any other nerds who can sneak past their mom/wife/partner/WoW).

Ah, PostgreSQL...  The Other White Meat.  Or, at least, the Other Open Source DB.  Those cooky kids are throwing their little conference at Portland State University in the heart of increasingly-less-sunny-as-fall-hits-its-stride Stumptown this coming Saturday, October 20th.  You need to preregister and scrounge up sixty tax-de...

End-of-Life for PostgreSQL 8.0 on Windows

Sep 20, 2007
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Submitted By: Justin Stanley
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Woke up this morning to find a message in my inbox from the PostgreSQL pgsql-announce listserv with the subject "PostgreSQL 8.0, 8.1 on Windows End-of-Life."  Pretty self-explanatory.

According to the announcement, no more updates for those versions on the Windows platform will be released once version 8.3 hits the shelves later this year.  They recommend that anybody using one of those versions start thinking about upgrading as soon as possible.

Normally, we don't like to just parrot news readily available from other sources, but I didn't see this particul...