Software freedom activist Richard Stallman and others are trying to block Oracle's acquisition of MySQL. Why? Because MySQL is covered by the GNU Public License (GPL), and the purchase has exposed a ...
Big Red waves new features including vector support, while skeptics await concrete timescales Oracle has proposed a more ...
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's ...
More than 500 developers are urging Oracle to consider a vendor-neutral foundation for MySQL, warning that limited community ...
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 ...
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 ...