It's time to stop sniping at Oracle's handling of MySQL. Far from declining over the past few years, the open-source database has actually improved under Oracle's stewardship, according to Percona ...

While many database solutions have gained popularity in recent years, MySQL—one of the oldest and most widely used open-source relational databases—has not only remained relevant but also ...

Why Microsoft could become one of the "biggest friends of open source" and why Oracle getting its hands on MySQL could be "one of the biggest open source coups ever" ...

MySQL, one of the world's most successful open-source companies, has released the Standard Edition of its new MySQL Workbench product under a proprietary license. The company gives several reasons ...

Contributor agreements grease the funding wheels of many open source projects, but they can also endanger a project's health and stability. Simon Phipps uses the Oracle-MySQL scare to illustrate.

This story, “Why MySQL’s creator thinks IBM could acquire the database,” was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in open source at InfoWorld.com.

Oracle is holding back test cases in the latest release of MySQL. It's a move that has all the markings of the company's continued efforts to further close up the open source software and alienate ...