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MongoDB sets its sights beyond NoSQL competitors

The NoSQL database is challenging rivals like Oracle MySQL and IBM DB2

The unintended consequences of forced BYOD

When personal equipment is required to handle business data and processes, say good-bye to traditional notions of corporate power

Happy birthday to LinkedIn, the biggest social network no one uses

The 10-year-old network has more users and higher profits than ever -- thanks in large part to spammy marketing tactics

Wikipedia dumps MySQL, hooks up with MariaDB

Driven by preference for open source software 'without bifurcated code bases,' Wikipedia embraces MariaDB, a MySQL fork free of Oracle baggage

How Kaiser bet $4 billion on electronic health records -- and won

Kaiser Permanente CIO Philip Fasano explains how electronic records have paid off and the health care giant's embrace of mobile technology

Big movies, big data: Netflix embraces NoSQL in the cloud

With billions of reads and writes daily, Netflix relies on NoSQL database Cassandra to replace a legacy Oracle deployment

SkySQL, MariaDB to merge

The MySQL and MariaDB support providers will take the fight to Oracle together

Health records exchange: Many standards, many doubts

Interoperability seems to be everyone's goal, resulting in competing approaches that may not achieve true data sharing

Oracle's Hurd on Fusion Applications, aggressive salespeople, and SAP

The co-CEO wishes SAP 'good luck' in its plans to take database market share away from Oracle

Data migration is hard to do

Data munging and data migration come with big challenges -- and big rewards

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