Just six weeks after announcing that it would acquire open-source database vendor MySQL AB for $1 billion, Sun Microsystems Inc. today said that it has already completed the deal. In a conference call ...

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 ...

MySQL users are cautiously optimistic about life under Oracle, but say Larry Ellison’s team needs to offer a more detailed road map for development of the open source database. Under Sun Microsystems, ...

Once viewed as the little database that could do basic tasks, MySQL--available in open source and commercial form--is on track to gain support for clustering, Unicode, stored procedures, triggers and ...

Oracle has announced the general availability of MySQL 5.5. The new release delivers enhancements enabling users to improve the performance and scalability of web applications across multiple ...