With the move, announced Wednesday, Sun takes a big leap into the $15 billion database market and pits it against the likes of Microsoft, IBM and Oracle. MySQL (all resources) also gives Sun entry to ...

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 ...

Developed by Sweden's MySQL AB, MySQL 4.0 is a free, open-source database that offers real advantages—and real limitations—compared with the commercial packages in our roundup. Aiming for reliability ...

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 ...

When it comes to open-source licenses, developers have their fair share of choices (GPL, BSD, MIT, Apache, etc.), all of them with their own pros and cons. The same goes for commercial licenses. MySQL ...

Sun has claimed that completing its purchase of the open-source database developer MySQL will enable it to become the most complete provider of open-source server software. Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's ...

Enhanced open source software and commercial services company, NuSphere, has appointed popular MySQL author Paul DuBois to its team. NuSphere is the provider of NuSphere MySQL, a leading packaged ...

The Open Rights Group, Knowledge Ecology International, and U.S. software freedom activist Richard Stallman on Tuesday released an open letter to the European Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest MySQL AB news every morning. A European team of software engineers who sold their start-up to Sun Microsystems for $1bn is to be ...