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 ...

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.

Sun has sent shockwaves through the open-source software community today by acquiring open-source database company MySQL AB. The MySQL database is regarded as one of the core components of open ...