Faithful pen open letter proposing independent foundation with or without Big Red's participation A group of influential ...

An open letter signed by architects, DBAs, and engineers argues that closed development, missing AI‑era features, and ...

After MySQL community summits, an open letter urges Oracle to discuss the database's future. Do Oracle's recent announcements ...

Commit drought and governance gripes push Big Red to reset Oracle has promised a "decisive new approach" to MySQL, the popular open source database it owns, following growing criticism of its approach ...

Employees and customers of MySQL got a jolt of concern in October, when Oracle bought Innobase, a small company supplying an important component of the MySQL open-source database. Now MySQL has a plan ...

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 ...

Specifically, MySQL Autopilot uses internalized machine learning to assist users for some tasks, and applies closed-loop automation to handle others. It assists users by making recommendations on how ...

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 things ...

Oracle Corp.’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. will bring together the world’s most valuable relational database with the most popular open-source one — MySQL. Oracle reaped $22 ...

Oracle's recent release of three new commercial extensions to the MySQL database has caused an outcry among some in the MySQL community. Some, including project founder Michael "Monty" Widenius, are ...

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