An open letter signed by architects, DBAs, and engineers argues that closed development, missing AI‑era features, and ...

Oracle intends to release a free version of its database, a reaction to the growing competitive pressure from low-end open-source databases. The database heavyweight on Tuesday is expected to announce ...

With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL, which uses SQL ...

Oracle Corp. plans to release a free version of its database by the end of the year in a move to compete more effectively at the low end of the market. Oracle released a beta version of the product, ...

After massive staff cuts and a months-long development pause, Oracle promises a new beginning for MySQL – including ...

McAfee, a security technology company, is offering a free downloadable audit plug-in for MySQL databases that records full activity audits, which are often required for enterprises to satisfy certain ...

Oracle Corp., which supplies Yahoo! Inc. with database software, may lose some of that business to a little-known competing product -- the free MySQL database. MySQL and others are starting to eat ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...