Open-source database company, with its own storage engine in the works, renews contract with Oracle around InnoDB.

MySQL (all resources) also gives Sun entry to some customers that may be interested in buying more equipment and software. MySQL counts Facebook, Google, Nokia and Baidu as customers.

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 ...

MySQL's move illustrates the growing pains in the open-source software movement as it becomes a mainstream part of the computing industry.

MySQL founder Michael “Monty” Widenius and his co-founder David Axmark, however, came up with a different model a few years ago: the Business Source License (BSL).

MySQL competes against proprietary database players like IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp., pitting its software both against their entry-level free databases and their commercial ...

The big three proprietary suppliers of database software – Oracle, IBM and Microsoft, compete in multi-billion dollar market, at one time snubbed their nose at the arrival of MySQL. After all ...

Driven by preference for open source software 'without bifurcated code bases,' Wikipedia embraces MariaDB, a MySQL fork free of Oracle baggage ...

If Oracle is allowed to acquire MySQL, it will predictably limit the development of the functionality and performance of the MySQL software platform, leading to profound harm to those who use ...

As I've said before, MySQL gets it. Why? Well, in the eyes of commercial enterprise software vendors, the optimal result is for OSS vendors to stick to their "OSS religious" roots.