Oracle has apparently raised the price of an entry-level MySQL subscription significantly.Sun Microsystems, which Oracle bought this year, had offered subscription pricing for the open-source ...

Oracle has apparently raised the price of an entry-level MySQL subscription significantly. Sun Microsystems, which Oracle bought this year, had offered subscription pricing for the open-source ...

Oracle is making a fresh run at Microsoft’s SQL Server, claiming on Tuesday that its open-source MySQL database offers up to 90 percent cost savings over SQL Server along with blazing ...

Oracle reaped $8.34 billion from database sales in 2007, giving it 37.6% of the $22.2 billion global market, according to IDC. The 2008 figures are not yet available, the research firm added.

Yet if you visit mysql.com, you'll see hardly any mention of Sun, the company that purchased MySQL for $1 billion in 2008, and Oracle's logo is Oracle's absorption of Sun is complete.

Oracle is determined to keep MySQL if it acquires Sun, but the reason likely has little to do with open source and everything to do with Microsoft. Oracle doesn't compete with open source. Not really.

“MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse makes it easy for customers to get valuable real-time insights by combining their data in object storage with database data while gaining significantly higher query ...

The price of an entry-level MySQL subscription from Oracle now starts at $2,000 per server, up from $599 under Sun Topics Spotlight: AI-ready data centers ...

But an Oracle price list released Monday does not include that pricing option. It lists a MySQL Standard Edition subscription that costs $2,000 for each server with between one and four sockets ...