CNET

MySQL expands open-source database

The company releases a developer version of MySQL 5.0, which can create and run stored procedures, a feature common to commercial databases. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...
CNET

MySQL under siege and the likely need to "roll your own" open source

First it was Oracle buying Innobase(though Oracle has so far played fair). Now it's IBM buying Solid Information Technology. Given much of the proprietary world's public attitude toward open source ...
ZDNet

Oracle tried to buy open-source MySQL

SAN FRANCISCO--Oracle tried to acquire open-source database maker MySQL, an indication of the profound changes the software giant is willing to make as it adapts to the increasingly significant ...
dbta

What is Oracle MySQL Database?

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 ...
ZDNet

MySQL addresses open-source license problem

The rift divided MySQL and PHP, software that lets computers construct customized Web pages on the fly. The two packages are found side by side so often--along with the Linux operating system and the ...
InfoWorld

MySQL’s open challenge

As the CEO of MySQL, the company behind the open-source database, MySQL, Marten Mickos is leading the company’s move into the enterprise market against players such as Sybase, Oracle, IBM, and ...
InfoWorld

The best new features in MariaDB

The open source MySQL spin-off has steadily added features all its own. Here are five good reasons to switch to MariaDB.
Computerworld

Open-source community sees promise in MySQL deal

For Sun Microsystems Inc., the acquisition of open-source database vendor MySQL AB is a positive step, giving Sun its own database and a growing, loyal community of open-source users and developers to ...
PC World

Oracle Further Commercializes MySQL Database

Oracle has added additional commercial extensions to the enterprise edition of its open-source MySQL database, further differentiating it from the community version available to anyone at no charge. A ...

Dear Oracle, we need to talk about the future of MySQL

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

IBM to open its midrange systems to MySQL’s database

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — MySQL AB and IBM announced Wednesday that users of the latter’s System i hardware line will be able to run the MySQL open-source database on the midrange servers. The System i ...