Faithful pen open letter proposing independent foundation with or without Big Red's participation A group of influential ...

MySQL has become perhaps the most visible player in the open source database market. With revenues now at $20 million annually, the company is eyeing a greater enterprise presence with its upcoming ...

HELSINKI, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Oracle should remove the key stumbling block to approval of its Sun acquisition by giving Sun's database MySQL to an independent, non-profit foundation, a free software ...

With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL, which uses SQL ...

MySQL, an open-source database company, has taken a step to mend a rift in the open-source world by updating a controversial licensing provision that had broken a close tie between the MySQL database ...

When it comes to open-source licenses, developers have their fair share of choices (GPL, BSD, MIT, Apache, etc.), all of them with their own pros and cons. The same goes for commercial licenses. MySQL ...

MySQL plans to announce a higher-end addition next month that will allow more than one instance of its open-source database to take over if another fails. The software, MySQL Cluster, is based on ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--MySQL kicked off its first-ever users conference by releasing the source code of its upcoming MySQL 5.0 product and touting its reputation as the little database company that could.

Santa Clara, Calif. — With its open source database, MySQL represents the economy class of databases, which can be a sufficient alternative to more expensive products, according to Marten Mickos, CEO ...

Sun has claimed that completing its purchase of the open-source database developer MySQL will enable it to become the most complete provider of open-source server software. Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's ...