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European Ombudsman consults on public access to EU databases (Eu Business)

The European Ombudsman has launched an EU-wide consultation process on access to information contained in databases. This follows a complaint from a Danish journalist about the refusal of the European Commission to disclose data on beneficiaries of EU agricultural subsidies.

MobiForms Mobile Development Tool Now Supports Wireless PDA Access To MySQL Databases (WirelessWorkforceOnline)

The latest version of the mobile development tool MobiForms 4.05 now includes support for wireless PDA access to MySQL databases. With MobiForms is it now possible to remotely connect to most industry standard databases including Oracle, Sybase, IBM DB2, SQLite, HSQLDB and MySQL.

HP Frees Data From Databases (Enterprise Storage Forum)

HP (NYSE:HPQ) has added XML support to its HP Database Archiving software to help customers meet long-term data retention needs.

Code Quality In Open and Closed Source Kernels (Slashdot)

Diomidis Spinellis writes "Earlier today I presented at the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering a research paper comparing the code quality of Linux, Windows (its research kernel distribution), OpenSolaris, and FreeBSD. For the comparison I parsed multiple configurations of these systems (more than ten million lines) and stored the results in four databases, where I could run ...

Soca gives forces Interpol access (KableNET)

The agency has rolled out Interpol secure communication systems to police forces in England and Wales, according to its annual report published on 15 April 2008. This allows police officers to carry out research on Interpol databases for fugitives, vehicles and stolen or lost travel documents.