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 ...

MySQL charges nothing for its software and aims to make money selling ... The acquisition also enables Oracle to introduce its own open-source database, to keep customers from switching to MySQL.

This is a long way from yesteryear, before the dawn of open source technology and the birth of MySQL. The big three proprietary suppliers of database software – Oracle, IBM and Microsoft ...

MariaDB, an open-source database management system (DBMS) and MySQL fork has been gaining inroads in enterprise software and its founders formed a foundation, the MariaDB Foundation, to promote ...

MySQL plans to announce a higher-end addition next month that will allow more than one instance of its open-source database to take over if another fails. The software, MySQL Cluster, is based on ...

their software can run on in production ... license the latest version of its MaxScale database proxy under the BSL (MariaDB itself is a fork of MySQL, so it is forever bound to the open-source ...

RedMonk analyst Stephen O'Grady said MySQL's decision to write its own storage engine is a direct response to Oracle's purchase of Innobase and Sleepycat Software, another open-source database ...

last week, asking Mickos about topics ranging from MySQL’s place in the database market to the volatile issue of software patents. InfoWorld: What are you going to talk about in your keynote ...

For years, MySQL has been the dominant open-source database management system (DBMS ... open-source vs. proprietary software; MariaDB's better performance at one of the world's busiest Web ...

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