With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL is designed to let users ...

The MySQL relational database serves as a back end for millions of websites, and powers millions of non-Internet data-handling applications. In 2009 ownership of MySQL passed to Oracle when it ...

The move by mySQL to withhold its Enterprise Server code from all but paying customers is a political hit, but legally it's in the clear. Such moves are perfectly legal under GPL Version 2, the ...

Since Oracle launched its MySQL HeatWave service in December 2020, it has continuously driven differentiation in the database-as-a-service market. While competing against some of the biggest names ...

MySQL is a database (see D - Do you speak my language: D is for Database, debug, DNS) program. It is a very powerful and fast database and is very useful in teaching set-ups, but it does lack of ...

While there is no shortage of questions surrounding what Oracle has in store for Sun Microsystems, perhaps the most intriguing one is what Oracle will do with MySQL. Will it live or will Oracle, which ...

It may be time for Oracle to donate MySQL -- as it did with OpenOffice -- to The Apache Foundation, or another open source house. It's no secret that the Redwood Shores, Calif. company acquired ...

It's not so much that there aren't workable business models around open source. But life is so much easier when those models can include pieces that people have to pay for as well.

What Is MySQL Workbench?. Adding data handling capabilities to your application or website can make it more user-friendly and enable you to store information obtained from users. MySQL, a free ...