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 ...

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 ...

Or, it will allow them to run complex queries that might have taken too long to run on earlier versions of the database system, said Tomas Ulin, Oracle vice president of MySQL engineering.

The “copyleft” provision of GPLv2 would allow developers to easily create and even sell so-called “forked” versions of MySQL if they become dissatisfied with Oracle’s handling of it.

Oracle has ended MySQL support for several operating systems that either reached the end-of-life or were not in popular demand.

Two years later, MySQL was acquired for $1bn by Sun Microsystems, which in turn was bought by Oracle for $7.4bn in 2010. By then, some of the database's original creators had already left to ...

The vulnerability in MySQL Server in the encryption subcomponent (CVE-2015-3194) has a CVSS 3.0 rating of 7.5 and affects versions 5.6.28 and earlier, as well as 5.7.10 and earlier.

An experienced MySQL database engineer has questioned whether Oracle might unintentionally kill off the open source database with its preference for adding features to its proprietary systems. Peter ...

Florian Mueller, coordinating opposition to Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems and mySQL, sent a note today cheering word that Oracle has asked for, and gotten, a six-day delay to answer ...

Oracle has announced significant MySQL ... on a four terabyte database is said to be more than 1,100 times faster running on HeatWave than when loaded into versions of MySQL running on Amazon ...