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Oracle Chief Larry Ellison might become a friend of open source, after all, if it helps him get at his long-time enemy, Microsoft. Sun acquired MySQL last year for $1 billion.

Oracle probably didn't understand MySQL well enough to want to buy the open-source start-up, now part of Sun. Like a knife and screwdriver, their products are complementary.

But MySQL HeatWave was revolutionary from the moment Oracle released it in late 2020. And it continues to separate itself from competing, but single-focus, database cloud solutions as Oracle adds ...

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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 founder of MySQL Michael Widenius "Monty" claims that Oracle is killing off his MySQL database and he is recommending that people move to his new project MariaDB. In an interview with Muktware ...

Linux distributors have been moving from Oracle's MySQL to its popular fork, MariaDB - and now Google is also moving to MariaDB. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor Sept ...

While the larger MySQL code base remains open source, the new engine will be proprietary and can only be used inside Oracle’s cloud. It won’t be able, at least for now, to be installed locally.

Oracle said that, in real-world comparison tests against version 5.1, the MySQL 5.5 release candidate provides a 1,500-percent performance increase in read/write operations on Windows-based ...