Matt Asay

Oracle is its own worst enemy when it comes to its cloud ambitions.

There are only two ways to make money with open source, Red Hat’s CEO says. Pick one.

Postgres is popular but can’t unseat Oracle due to its business practices. Here’s how Oracle wins with its contracts and database stickiness.

Big data has been a big disappointment, but there’s a way to ensure yours won’t be.

Despite Black Duck’s attempts to hype the AGPL, there are very good reasons to believe it’s not the ideal open source license.

New startup Dremio just emerged from stealth and aims to democratize data for BI professionals in the same way that AWS opened up infrastructure for developers.

RethinkDB hit the skids, but not because MongoDB. Instead, the cloud is to blame.

Even though MongoDB and Cassandra keep winning converts, enterprises are keeping their RDBMSes around, and will do so for quite some time.

If you want to scale like Apple, you might need to consider Cassandra. Matt Asay explains.

While Amazon Web Services (AWS) may reject the private cloud, Eucalyptus’ success may give it a way to have its public cloud cake and eat the private cloud too.