At this week’s Oracle Open World show in San Francisco, Oracle made it clear they will continue to invest in MySQL. By unveiling the release candidate for MySQL 5.5, the company soothed any fears of ...

Despite being the most popular open-source database management system (DBMS), Oracle's MySQL has been sinking into trouble. Major Linux distributions like Red Hat and SUSE, are switching it out for ...

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Oracle's latest commitments designed to address the European Commission's concerns regarding its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and the MySQL database are paper thin, and even if they were confirmed ...

With Oracle acquiring Sun Microsystems, it also acquires MySQL, the poster child for open-source applications. (Not to mention Solaris, which Sun says is a larger Linux distribution than Red Hat.) ...

Oracle is synonymous with database. In fact, the company has about six different databases to solve whatever data management problem you have. Are you still running OpenVMS? Oracle will hook you up ...

It’s not an exaggeration to say that the speed at which an enterprise can analyze business-critical data directly impacts its ability to compete. Time matters when it comes to mission-critical ...

Oracle has added additional commercial extensions to the enterprise edition of its open-source MySQL database, further differentiating it from the community version available to anyone at no charge. 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. MySQL Cluster 7.2, released for general ...

MySQL AB has signed a multiyear agreement with Oracle to renew its licensing of the InnoDB database storage engine, according to a MySQL executive. The move resolves confusion in the market about the ...

There's a lesson this week for the open source MySQL database: Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. This week Oracle said it's made MySQL -- a database it acquired in its 2010 purchase of ...