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Pete Loshin

Welcome! One way or another, open source software has influenced just about every major information technology development of the past forty years from multitasking operating systems to personal computing to the Internet itself - and it's already taking on the business information software industry. Whether you agree with me or not, I'm looking forward to sharing news and views here about open source software and how it is shaping the business of business intelligence.

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Pete is Founder of Internet-Standard.com, an open source and open standard computing consultancy providing technology assessment, needs analysis and transition planning services for organizations seeking alternatives to commercial software. Pete has written 20 books, including “TCP/IP Clearly Explained” 4th Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2003) and “IPv6 : Theory, Protocol, and Practice,” 2nd Edition (Morgan Kaufmann, 2004).

Pete can be reached at pete@loshin.com or at 781. 859.9175.

Ever wonder whether or not some feature you need/want in your chosen implementation of SQL can be ported to or implemented in some other vendor's SQL implementation?

Now, you can look it up here, at the Comparison of different SQL implementations page, the work of Troels Arvin, database administrator in the Danish National Board of Health.

Go check it out and you can figure out just how your SQL of choice stacks up against the SQL:2003 standard, Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.


Posted October 4, 2007 9:00 AM
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