MySQL Chief Executive Marten Mickos confirmed the acquisition attempt in an interview at the Open Source Business Conference here but wouldn’t provide details such as when the approach was made or how ...

Oracle has proposed a more transparent approach to developing its open source database MySQL, including new features supporting vectors.… As if answering recent criticism of Oracle's custodianship of ...

The company releases a developer version of MySQL 5.0, which can create and run stored procedures, a feature common to commercial databases. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

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MariaDB, an open-source database management system (DBMS) and MySQL fork has been gaining inroads in enterprise software and its founders formed a foundation, the MariaDB Foundation, to promote its ...

Observers say that Oracle's acquisition of MySQL will not be damaging to MySQL itself and question the motives of some detractors A number of influential members of the open-source community are ...

John Engates is the CTO of Rackspace Hosting and an evangelist for the open cloud. Open source data has a split personality. There’s the NoSQL zealot who likes to fire off tirades against the ...

Frédéric Descamps, open source evangelist at the MariaDB Foundation, said at the time that there had been a "friendly reset" ...

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 the ...