With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL is designed to let users ...

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 ...

MySQL is the second most popular database in use, according the DB-Engines Ranking, and is a key element of the LAMP — Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, PHP — open-source web development stack.

MySQL is easy to install, relatively fast, and loaded with features. If that’s not enough, it’s also one of the most prominent flagships of the open source movement, the big success story that ...

MySQL is a database (see D - Do you speak my language: D is for Database, debug, DNS) program. It is a very powerful and fast database and is very useful in teaching set-ups, but it does lack of ...

The move by mySQL to withhold its Enterprise Server code from all but paying customers is a political hit, but legally it's in the clear. Such moves are perfectly legal under GPL Version 2, the ...

It's tempting to speculate that Oracle 's bid for Sun Microsystems is a convenient way to kill off open-source database wonder, MySQL. But MySQL's former chief executive, Mårten Mickos, sees ...

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 ...

What Is MySQL Workbench?. Adding data handling capabilities to your application or website can make it more user-friendly and enable you to store information obtained from users. MySQL, a free ...

It's not so much that there aren't workable business models around open source. But life is so much easier when those models can include pieces that people have to pay for as well.