Marten Mickos, MySQL's former chief, discusses Oracle's $7.4 billion bid for Sun Microsystems. Marten Mickos, ... MySQL was getting around 70,000 downloads a day when I left.

The release candidate of MySQL 5.5 is now available for download, Oracle announced on Sunday at its OpenWorld event in San Francisco. The company said that the new release brings improvements in ...

Oracle has ended MySQL support for several operating systems that either reached the end-of-life or were not in popular demand.

Percona Server 5.6, now available as a free download, also includes all the functionality of Oracle’s community edition of MySQL 5.6, released in February. Percona Server is designed to work ...

Oracle announces MySQL tweaks, HeatWave storage engine. Peter Wayner. August 10, 2021 9:00 AM Image Credit: Justin ... Anyone who downloads a current version of MySQL, ...

Observers say that Oracle's acquisition of MySQL will not be damaging to MySQL itself and question the motives of some detractors A number of influential members of the open-source community are ...

Oracle announces the latest batch of updates to HeatWave that bring new capabilities for enterprise machine learning, AI-driven automation, and multi-cloud support.

Oracle probably didn't understand MySQL well enough to want to buy the open-source start-up, now part of Sun. Like a knife and screwdriver, their products are complementary.

MariaDB, the MySQL fork database management system, is throwing down the gauntlet to Oracle by forming a foundation to promote its alternative DBMS software.

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 ...