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).

The open-source database maker is simplifying its enterprise pricing structure, offering a new one-price-fits-all licensing model of its flagship offering, MySQL Enterprise.

Google has been working with the MariaDB Foundation since the beginning of the year. Internet giant Google is migrating from Oracle's MySQL databases to MariaDB, the fork from MySQL established by ...

The big news this morning is that open source database startup MySQL finally found a year’s worth of rumors that they were mulling over an initial public offering.Sun Microsystems has acquired ...