As Microsoft woos open source folks to embrace SQL Server, Oracle is hitting back by enticing Windows developers to MySQL.

The first plug-in to come out of the MySQL AB camp for Visual Studio will afford developers the ability to easily manage and create MySQL databases, stored procedures, views, UDFs, and tables. As ...

Some especially significant implications for Web developers can be found in a new study by research firm Ovum that measured the sentiment about Big Data vendors in 2012 Twitter posts.