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

Oracle sets out refreshed approach to MySQL ...

Commit drought and governance gripes push Big Red to reset Oracle has promised a "decisive new approach" to MySQL, the popular open source database it owns, following growing criticism of its approach ...

Faithful pen open letter proposing independent foundation with or without Big Red's participation A group of influential users and developers of MySQL have invited Oracle to join their plans to create ...

After MySQL community summits, an open letter urges Oracle to discuss the database's future. Do Oracle's recent announcements satisfy critics?

Since Oracle launched its MySQL HeatWave service in December 2020, it has continuously driven differentiation in the database-as-a-service market. While competing against some of the biggest names in ...

Sun said today it will acquire open source database company MySQL for about $1 billion, a deal that would keep Sun at the center of the thriving open source software industry (see the announcement ...

CEO Marten Mickos unintimidated by database giant... MySQL, the open-source software company, has undertaken the formidable task of going head-to-head with database giants Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.

Oracle Corp.’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. will bring together the world’s most valuable relational database with the most popular open-source one — MySQL. Oracle reaped $22 ...

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 ...