There’s some potentially interesting changes coming to the world of MySQL. And no, it’s got nothing to do with the recent acquisition by Sun Microsystems. Drizzle is a new project from Brian ...

Percona Server is designed to work with applications that would be too demanding for MySQL itself to support, said Peter Zaitsev, founder and CEO of Percona, a MySQL consultancy and software company.

MySQL is owned and sponsored by the Swedish firm MySQL AB, a for-profit firm. It holds the copyright to most of their code base and touts more than 11 million installations of the software worldwide.

Driven by preference for open source software 'without bifurcated code bases,' Wikipedia embraces MariaDB, a MySQL fork free of Oracle baggage ...

Open-source database company MySQL launched a certification program Wednesday to assure that programmers and others are proficient with the software. Certification programs help pave the way for ...

Sun has claimed that completing its purchase of the open-source database developer MySQL will enable it to become the most complete provider of open-source server software. Jonathan Schwartz, Sun ...

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Sun's acquisition of MySQL has broad implications for the software industry. Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and other tech media.

Opera, MySQL, 1&1 Internet, CAS Software, CSB-System, GMX, and Materna are being aided in their effort by campaigner Florian Mueller, founder of an anti-patent Web site, who has agreed to return ...