On the heels of yesterday's Steve Jobs keynote at Macworld, Apple may be the tech company that's top of mind for many readers. However, from an enterprise computing perspective, Sun Microsystem's ...

The company releases a developer version of MySQL 5.0, which can create and run stored procedures, a feature common to commercial databases. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Oracle tried to acquire open-source database maker MySQL, an indication of the profound changes the software giant is willing to make as it adapts to the increasingly significant ...

The rift divided MySQL and PHP, software that lets computers construct customized Web pages on the fly. The two packages are found side by side so often--along with the Linux operating system and the ...

It’s interesting to see the response to this week’s announcement of MySQL’s new Query Analyzer (part of the subscription offering) and the forthcoming 5.1 release of the server. There’s been a lot of ...

For Sun Microsystems Inc., the acquisition of open-source database vendor MySQL AB is a positive step, giving Sun its own database and a growing, loyal community of open-source users and developers to ...

Infobright on Monday unwrapped a new version of its open source data warehouse for analytics — and shared its lofty expectations for the product. “What MySQL did for databases, letting the low end of ...

Sun’s open source buy of MySQL deftly positions both companies in a high-growth enterprise market for a new generation of Web-based applications. Exactly where Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft also plan to ...

Open source is no longer considered the wild underdog, but it will need more new companies making money off the trend, the one-time CEO of MySQL stressed Wednesday at the EclipseCon 2010 conference.

The popularity of the product and the large developer community that has cropped up to work with it have made MySQL one of the most stable back-end databases on the market. On small projects with 50 ...

The MySQL relational database serves as a back end for millions of websites, and powers millions of non-Internet data-handling applications. In 2009 ownership of MySQL passed to Oracle when it bought ...