Elance Report on Hot Online Skills

MaureenA — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:42:00 GMT

Elance released its Online Work Index report for April 2009. The report lists the top 100 skills in demand for current job postings. The list is definitely something to consider for those looking to advance their skills to make them more marketable in a tough job market - including soon-to-be-graduates. The top 10 skills are a good mix of technical skills and creative skills with PHP and MySQL ranking 1 and 2 respectively, and graphic design and article writing ranking 4 and 5 respectively. Social media continues to grow, as Twitter skills made the first appearance on the report ranking at 93. Facebook skills increased by 10 from the previous report.

In addition, Elance lists whether the skills have increased or decreased in demand and by how many points. The report is based on more than 100,000 jobs posted on the site in the last few months.

Elance offers professionals 250 skills tests for free on its site. The report notes that more than 13,000 skills tests were taken in March.

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Sun Microsystems Releases MySQL 5.1

Pete Prestipino — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:48:00 GMT

This week Sun Microsystems announced the general availability of MySQL 5.1. This is a major new release of the world's most popular open source database. The production-ready MySQL 5.1 software is available for download now at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/. MySQL 5.1 has been downloaded over 250,000 times in the days it has been generally available.

"MySQL 5.1's low total cost combined with its high performance, scalability and enterprise-class features is the right database solution for many large corporations and Web companies, especially in today's economic climate,” said Marten Mickos, senior vice president, Database Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "With more than a quarter of a million downloads of MySQL 5.1 in its first ten days, we are proud to deliver this robust product that is garnering such interest from the open source community."

New industry research shows the continued growth and maturation of the market for open source database management systems (DBMS). In Gartner, Inc.’s “The Growing Maturity of Open-Source Database Management Systems,” published in late November, Gartner VP Donald Feinberg reported that a recently conducted study by the firm demonstrated a 50% increase from 2007 to 2008 in the usage of open source DBMSs in production, repeating previous findings that revenue growth in the open source DBMS segment grew at a rate of 42% from 2006 to 2007, far outpacing the overall DBMS market at 13%.

Moving forward, Gartner projects 40% CAGR growth in the open source DBMS segment over the next five years, resulting in an estimated $1 billion market by 2013.

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