With the move, announced Wednesday, Sun takes a big leap into the $15 billion database market and pits it against the likes of Microsoft, IBM and Oracle. MySQL (all resources) also gives Sun entry to ...

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It's "the most important acquisition in Sun's history," CEO Schwartz says of buying the open-source database company. Next: accelerated development, GPLv3 licensing. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Database Management System (DBMS) software acts as an interface between an end user and a database and is designed to allow users to create databases as well as store, manipulate and manage data in an ...

patchVantage, an Oracle management software supplier, has added patching functionality for MySQL, and Microsoft’s SQL Server on Linux. According patchVantage, since Oracle’s RDBMS, MySQL, Microsoft’s ...

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 ...

Business application powerhouse SAP is tapping MySQL's open-source database software in a deal that should let the smaller company accelerate its development plans. The move, announced Tuesday, should ...

Earlier, we discussed SQL Databases. In this post, I will list some popular open-source, free database software. Before starting any service online, it is necessary to choose a database that can ...