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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...