MySQL (all resources) also gives Sun entry to some customers that may be interested in buying more equipment and software. MySQL counts Facebook, Google, Nokia and Baidu as customers.

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Sun has claimed that completing its purchase of the open-source database developer MySQL will enable it to become the most complete provider of open-source server software. Jonathan Schwartz, Sun ...

Open-source database company, with its own storage engine in the works, renews contract with Oracle around InnoDB.

Then open-source database company takes a step to mend a rift in the open-source world by updating a licensing provision that had broken a close tie between the MySQL database and another software ...

The big three proprietary suppliers of database software – Oracle, IBM and Microsoft, compete in multi-billion dollar market, at one time snubbed their nose at the arrival of MySQL. After all ...

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).

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's move illustrates the growing pains in the open-source software movement as it becomes a mainstream part of the computing industry.

Two software rights organizations and a software freedom activist wrote in an open letter to the E.U. that it should not allow Oracle to acquire MySQL because of the potential harm, while MySQL's ...