MySQL (all resources) also gives Sun entry to some customers that may be interested in buying more equipment and software. MySQL counts Facebook, Google, Nokia and Baidu as customers.

Open-source database company, with its own storage engine in the works, renews contract with Oracle around InnoDB.

Then open-source database company takes a step to mend a rift in the open-source world by updating a licensing provision that had broken a close tie between the MySQL database and another software ...

MySQL's move illustrates the growing pains in the open-source software movement as it becomes a mainstream part of the computing industry.

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 ...

Open-source database company MySQL continues to add capabilities common to commercial database software as it tries to shake up the multibillion-dollar market. MySQL on Monday introduced an early ...

NuSphere, a Progress Software company, says Paul DuBois, a specialist in MySQL, will be joining the company.

Marten Mickos emailed to point out the MySQL Workbench offering (a good FAQ here). As I've said before, MySQL gets it. Why? Well, in the eyes of commercial enterprise software vendors, the optimal ...

MySQL founder Michael “Monty” Widenius and his co-founder David Axmark, however, came up with a different model a few years ago: the Business Source License (BSL).

Two software rights organizations and a software freedom activist wrote in an open letter to the E.U. that it should not allow Oracle to acquire MySQL because of the potential harm, while MySQL's ...