Though MySQL's products are available for free under the GNU Public License (GPL), it's a real business. "We're as greedy as anyone else," Mickos said.

Though MySQL's products are available for free under the GNU Public License (GPL), it's a real business. "We're as greedy as anyone else," Mickos said.

Today, MySQL is a mainstream technology, and every new version offers more enterprise-focused capabilities, such as increased security, scalability and performance, and we continue to see new ...

Infobright on Monday unwrapped a new version of its open source data warehouse for analytics — and shared its lofty expectations for the product. “What MySQL did for databases, letting the low ...

I've been using Meteor for the last few months and for the most part I really like it. There's a big advantage to running the same language on the client and the server, and Meteor takes care of a ...

Oracle has updated its MySQL Cluster software to make it more appealing to large Web service providers, among other users of large-volume distributed databases.

Oracle chief corporate architect Edward Screven said the MySQL development team is twice the size as it was before the Sun acquisition. "We have spent more money. We have hired a lot more people.

To highlight the advantages and disadvantages of the open-source MySQL DBMS, we asked two open-source experts to identify the reasons IT managers should—and shouldn't—reach for MySQL. Here's ...

Until now, to use MySQL or PostgreSQL on Azure, they would have had to spin up virtual machines to run and operate those database systems themselves.