It may be time for Oracle to donate MySQL -- as it did with OpenOffice -- to The Apache Foundation, or another open source house. It's no secret that the Redwood Shores, Calif. company acquired Sun, ...

Sun said today it will acquire open source database company MySQL for about $1 billion, a deal that would keep Sun at the center of the thriving open source software industry (see the announcement ...

Cutting corners: MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system developed by Swedish company MySQL AB in the mid 90s. Sun Microsystems acquired the firm in 2008, which Oracle ...

Oracle has instigated "widespread layoffs" across its core MySQL development team, sparking concern about the future of one of the world's most popular open-source databases. It looks like multiple ...

Despite being the most popular open-source database management system (DBMS), Oracle's MySQL has been sinking into trouble. Major Linux distributions like Red Hat and SUSE, are switching it out for ...

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