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As everyone has already heard Oracle is buying / merging with Sun Microsystems who is the current owner of the MySQL technology.  Since Oracle is a huge database software vendor I suspect that they will kill the MySQL technology although they say the initial press releases on the merger deem that Not a whole lot is going to change in the direction of some of Sun's Projects (Java, OpenSolaris, ZFS, Open Office), but time will only tell where the future of MySQL will be.  As part of my full-time job is to stay ahead of the curve and provide perfect and long lasting solutions to our customer.   This is the reason you will be seeing quite a few PostgreSQL posts in the next few days as I'm quite green on the database server, but my learning curve, resources, and links will come out in my consistent posts in regards to Security, Application Migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL, Data protection, high availability etc.

Today is a huge day in the world of web development and database development as Oracle has acquired Sun Microsystems.  The reason that this is such a huge deal is that Sun holds a great deal of high value cards when it comes to what is being leveraged on the web today such as MySQL and Java are the largest developments coming out of the Sun house.  Right behind  those two technologies is the Microsoft Office alternative that I personally enjoy using and has became a standard for most Linux users and that is OpenOffice, and the enterprise datacenter server operating system that put Sun Microsystems on the map Solaris.  There are also some very influential research coming out of Sun Microsystems and the most widely known and adopted technology is their ZFS file system that FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, and Apple are leveraging as a

Everyone that is working on a website and/or blog is always trying to stay on top of the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) trends of the month.  From managing and working with websites that range from light traffic (sub 1k vistors/day) to high traffic sites (10k + vistors/day) I've found some fairly decent resources that help me along the way.

Well I'm going to try a little something different, and make a rant post giving a couple nice links to some interesting reads and getting a little bit of information dumped into you mind all at once.  This is not going to be the most directed or organized post of mine, but who cares... it makes things a little more interesting.

Top 10 Open Source CRM Solutions - InsideCRM.com

http://www.insidecrm.com/features/top-open-source-solutions-121307/

I'm going to get right into the nitty gritty on making you're Drupal installation more SEO Friendly with the intent of increasing traffic and page rank!

1. Pathauto

This module is going to automatically generate a SEO Friendly alias for your content that you are creating.  This module is dependant on Token so you will need to make sure you have that module loaded first before enabling Pathauto

Download PathAuto  ||  Download Token

Make sure to read the documentation for Pathauto if you already have content populated on your site