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 ...

Sun Microsystems is making a play to boost its standing in the $15 billion database market. The company announced Wednesday a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, whose technologies are behind ...

MySQL, for the uninitiated, is the popular relational database management system (RDMS) created by Michael “ Monty ” Widenius, David Axmark, and Allan Larsson back in the mid-’90s.