In many ways, MySQL is the quintessential commercial open-source success story. On the financial side, MySQL managed to build a vibrant business, doing north of $90 million at the time of its ...

MySQL, an open-source database ... likening the situation to the company's termination in 2002 of the Red Hat Database project it ... Because MySQL owns copyright to all the MySQL code, ...

The story so far. The genesis of NocoDB can be traced back to 2017, when Rudrappa was working on a related open source database “passion project” under a different name, one that was purely a ...

Engineering teams from Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter have begun work on WebScaleSQL, an open source project designed to address the challenges of running MySQL at Web scale.

MySQL AB's open-source database license has long confused ISVs and others who want to support MySQL but aren't sure whether they need to purchase a license. To remedy these licensing gray areas ...

Sun Microsystems's acquisition of MySQL was 'a billion-dollar vote for the LAMP stack.' That's how former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, now senior vice president in Sun's Database Group, characterized the ...

MySQL, an open-source database company, has taken a step to mend a rift in the open-source world by updating a controversial licensing provision that had broken a close tie between the MySQL ...

An open source database is just a regular database that’s distributed with its source code. Users can read, revise, and extend the software freely, although few use these opportunities. The most ...

MySQL's move to begin offering parts of its namesake database as closed source only will apply only to plug-ins — such as encryption and compression — according to co-founder David Axmark.

A Chinese software vendor has brushed aside speculation that its enterprise product, which uses code from Oracle Corp’s MySQL open-source relational database management system, faces the risk of ...