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 ...

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. Gordon Haff is Red ...

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 ...

As the CEO of MySQL, the company behind the open-source database, MySQL, Marten Mickos is leading the company’s move into the enterprise market against players such as Sybase, Oracle, IBM, and ...

A number of influential members of the open-source community are raising their voices about Oracle Corp.'s pending takeover of the open source MySQL database. Surprisingly, many are not opposing the ...

Open-source players MySQL and Open-Xchange are teaming up so Open-Xchange can embed MySQL’s database into its Linux-based collaboration server. The two companies announced a partnership and support ...

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 ...

The upcoming MySQL 4.1 release will, according to documentation on the group's Web site, use the latest version of the Microsoft Windows Installer available for the Windows 200 and XP operating ...

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Two popular open source databases, MySQL and PostgreSQL, are often the final two candidates when admins are preparing a new rollout. This high-level overview of these two open source powerhouses ...