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 ...

Linux distributors have been moving from Oracle's MySQL to its popular fork, MariaDB - and now Google is also moving to MariaDB.

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 ...

Oracle is staking its claim in the data lakehouse business while continuing to augment its ongoing generative AI efforts.

A number of influential members of the open-source community are raising their voices about Oracle’s pending takeover of the open source MySQL database. Surprisingly, many are not opposing the ...