Open-source advocates and industry watchers saw benefits to Sun's acquisition of MySQL that could mean greater use of open-source software in enterprise IT and more financial security to MySQL.

Here I share my top five open source tools for MySQL administrators and discuss their value in the support of day-to-day MySQL administration tasks.

MySQL has been a key component of the open source software stack known as LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl/Python/PHP). Mickos kicked off the annual event, which is underway this week in Santa ...

Linux is still the most famous open-source app, but database software using the same model is getting some play. MySQL is giving established software firms a run for their money. By Joanna Glasner.

MariaDB, an open-source database management system (DBMS) and MySQL fork has been gaining inroads in enterprise software and its founders formed a foundation, the MariaDB Foundation, to promote ...

Open source database developer MySQL has introduced MySQL Forge, a Web site and community directory designed to encourage MySQL users and developers to communicate, collaborate, and share MySQL code ...