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.

MariaDB, the MySQL fork database management system, is throwing down the gauntlet to Oracle by forming a foundation to promote its alternative DBMS software.

BitKeeper is used by more than 100 open source projects including MySQL, the Xen virtual machine monitor, and the ReiserFS journaling filesystem. Originally developed to as a way to make Linux ...

MySQL claims 10o million copies have been downloaded, though some users are bound to have downloaded several versions, and the active number is likely smaller. Still, 50,000 copies are being ...

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 ...

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.