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 ...

Top Database Management System Software. Microsoft SQL; MySQL; Oracle Database; MongoDB; IBM Db2 Database Management System Software Compared; Database Management System (DBMS) software acts as an ...

To generate interest from developers, Boston-based Akiban Technologies has released as open source its flagship database software, called Akiban Server. The company also released a connector for ...

Updated: Sun Microsystems is taking the plunge into the database market with the purchase of open source database developer MySQL for $1 billion ($800 million in cash in exchange for all MySQL ...

The company says its acquisition of open-source database provider MySQL will enable it to dominate in open-source server software Written by Cath Everett, Contributor Feb. 27, 2008 at 3:30 a.m. PT ...

The popular open-source applications is set to get support for clustering, a feature that lets one or more databases take over if another fails.

The easy-to-administer database is a developer favorite and a required ingredient for Web 2.0 start-ups. But MySQL still isn't breaking into the glass house. Last April, MySQL AB’s CEO Marten ...

MySQL 4 and any version of MySQL over the MyISAM storage engine are missing some basic SQL standard transactional capability. They should not be used for serious DBMS applications.

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 has become perhaps the most visible player in the open source database market. With revenues now at $20 million annually, the company is eyeing a greater enterprise presence with its ...