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.

Thus, as far as the MariaDB crew are concerned, “MariaDB continues the project started 18 years ago when we founded MySQL, with code maintained by the same dedicated core team. The time is right ...

A looming deadline following a dispute between two prominent open source developers has forced database vendor MySQL to consider a change to the way it develops its software, and will also force ...

To properly evaluate the strengths of PostgreSQL and MySQL, the two leading open-source databases, one must look at the history and pedigree of each, and their feature functionality and ...

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 ...

The video is in multiple sections, and covers different topics such as Sun’s acquisition of MySQL, the virtual workplace approach we have at MySQL, projects Brian and Monty are working on and more.

Engineering teams from Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter have begun work on WebScaleSQL, an open source project designed to address the challenges of running MySQL at Web scale. Engineering ...