Marten Mickos emailed to point out the MySQL Workbench offering (a good FAQ here). As I've said before, MySQL gets it. Why? Well, in the eyes of commercial enterprise software vendors, the optimal ...

MySQL, an open-source database company, has taken a step to mend a rift in the open-source world by updating a controversial licensing provision that had broken a close tie between the MySQL database ...

Open-source database company MySQL continues to add capabilities common to commercial database software as it tries to shake up the multibillion-dollar market. MySQL on Monday introduced an early ...

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 ...

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

MySQL plans to announce a higher-end addition next month that will allow more than one instance of its open-source database to take over if another fails. The software, MySQL Cluster, is based on ...

MySQL is a common database amongst many organizations. As such, when building an automation script that needs to query data from somewhere, you might run into the need to query a MySQL database. By ...

When it comes to open-source licenses, developers have their fair share of choices (GPL, BSD, MIT, Apache, etc.), all of them with their own pros and cons. The same goes for commercial licenses. MySQL ...

Last April, MySQL AB’s CEO Marten Mickos, kicked off the opening day of the 2007 MySQL Conference and Expo by stating “open source is simply a smarter method to develop and distribute software — a way ...