MySQL & mSQL has been on our bestseller list since its release earlier this year. What's behind the stunning success of this book, and of these powerful, open-source databases? Find out in our interview with lead author Randy J. Yarger.

Don't miss amazon.com's interview with Eric Raymond, in which he posits that selfishness motivates Open Source hackers, and that Microsoft is bent because they're being out-coded and out-marketed by "a bunch of grubby hackers in sandals." It's all to commemorate the publication of his book The Cathedral & the Bazaar.

Remembering a pioneer in Internet guidebooks-- San Jose Mercury News columnist David Plotnikoff remembers way back to 1993 when the Internet was a distant land and Ed Krol's The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog was the first and most reliable guide to it. The publication of The Whole Internet: The Next Generation picks up where the first edition left off and will guide new users through the tricky terrain of spam, child safety, privacy, security, and more.

Do people in the Linux community fail to see the importance of data? Jon Udell, Byte.com columnist (and author of Practical Internet Groupware), asks a direct question of the Open Source community: Why Isn't ODBC A Standard Feature Of Linux?

Tim O'Reilly recently gave a talk to a group of Fortune 500 executives and dispelled Ten Myths about Open Source Software. If the managers in your organization don't understand the importance of the Open Source movement, have them read this.

Thinking of buying a copy of User Friendly for your favorite geek? You better act now. The third printing just sold out and the fourth is selling out fast!

Putting Information to Work with Perl: A Success Story -- When it comes to the rapid deployment of information factories and mission-critical systems that process complex transactions, IX Development Labs uses nothing but Perl.

Webreference.com recommends JavaScript Application Cookbook, saying "this book dishes up a tempting selection of ready-to-serve client-side JavaScript applications.... Bradenbaugh takes a classic top-down approach to programming these more complex applications, complete with flow charts, code, comments, and illustrative techniques along the way that are applicable to all scripts." Read the complete review.

We hear more and more people talking about Zope, a free, open-source application server used for building high-performance Web sites. So does that mean O'Reilly will publish a book about it? Find out in the latest Frankly Speaking.

You've probably heard a lot about Enterprise Java Beans. What's the big deal? Find out in Beans, Beans, Good for Your Enterprise. Sample code shows how EJB takes some of the pain out of distributed computing. (Be sure to check out our book on Enterprise Java Beans.)

Fun and Learning at MindFest -- Jonathan Knudsen, author of The Unofficial Guide to LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ Robots, just returned from Mindfest, an international gathering of robot inventors hosted by the MIT Media Lab. While there he learned about virtual tinkering, artistic machines, exploratory learning, and how to build one mean robot.

Read the sendmail.net interview with Tim O'Reilly in which he talks about Linux, the Open Source development models, making great books, Rilke, and much more.