With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL is designed to let users ...

With Oracle acquiring Sun Microsystems, it also acquires MySQL, the poster child for open-source applications. (Not to mention Solaris, which Sun says is a larger Linux distribution than Red Hat.

Patrick Galbraith, a senior MySQL developer, noted in his blog that we don’t know “What will be the official development branch of MySQL,” As it is, Galbraith continued, “There is now one ...

MySQL (pronounced my-ess-cue-el ) is an open source, true multi-user, multi-threaded relational database management system (RDBMS), that uses Structured Query Language (SQL). MySQL was developed ...

It's not so much that there aren't workable business models around open source. But life is so much easier when those models can include pieces that people have to pay for as well.

MongoDB and MySQL are the leading open source NoSQL and relational databases, respectively. Which is best for your application?

VP & Principal Analyst, Datacenter Compute, Matt Kimball, dives in as he explains the latest update to MySQL HeatWave, Oracle shows no signs of slowing down. And I think this service may be the ...

Oracle's recent release of MySQL 8.0 adds NoSQL features that appeal to the next generation of cloud-native developers.