It may be time for Oracle to donate MySQL -- as it did with OpenOffice -- to The Apache Foundation, or another open source house. It's no secret that the Redwood Shores, Calif. company acquired ...

Opponents like Widenius and Stallman argue that whatever Oracle and it’s CEO Larry Ellison may claim, the acquirer would either weaken or bury the widely-used MySQL in order to protect its ...

Creator suggests it will be replaced 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 ...

With Google joining the exodus from MySQL to MariaDB, Oracle has another reason to regret its 2009 $7.4-billion purchase of Sun and MySQL. And the Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl (LAMP ...

Both relational database systems have played a crucial role in the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) software stack for web applications, which is used by some of the world's most popular websites.

Oracle, the steward over MySQL since 2010, ... Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack. It was simple, fast, and free. But over time, the very things that made MySQL dominant came to constrain its growth.

Oracle has added additional commercial extensions to the enterprise edition of its open-source MySQL database, further differentiating it from the community version available to anyone at no charge.