“We primarily look for people with good programming skills”
As an online tutoring platform, TutorVista customises open source applications to mimic a classroom experience and maintain its database. G Ramasubramani, CTO, TutorVista, tells OSFY readers what skills the company looks for while…
Postgres-XC — A PostgreSQL Clustering Solution
What started with a simple relational database system, is expanding its horizons by developing new technology that satiates the ever-increasing need for more data storage, greater transaction throughput and higher availability. Using a…
Automate Your Office Yourself with ProcessMaker, Part 2
In the first part of this series, we got an overview of ProcessMaker, and how to get started with it; how to set up processes and assign them to users. In this part,…
The Comprehensive LAMP Guide — Part 2 (MySQL)
MySQL is the most widely used Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), and is the “M” in the LAMP stack. One of the main uses for MySQL is with Web applications. To avoid the…
NIT-C Students Use PostgreSQL to Design Their Own Video Repository
The students of NIT-C, who were one of the winners of the EnterpriseDB PostgreSQL contest, share with the LINUX For You team how they created an internal database of MIT and IIT video…
When Should I Consider an Open Source Database?
This article gives you facts, figures, and useful advice on when choosing an open source database makes good business sense. Read on! 2010 was a very good year for open source databases, with…
CNN-IBN’s Rocking Affair with PostgreSQL
Developers and companies that build or deploy software solutions for websites that have to be available 24/7 can rely on fool-proof open source database as a cost-effective alternative to proprietary enterprise database solutions….
Database Programming in Python
For database programming, the Python DB API is a widely used module that provides a database application programming interface.




