Oracle is synonymous with database. In fact, the company has about six different databases to solve whatever data management problem you have. Are you still running OpenVMS? Oracle will hook you up ...

Move reveals just how far the software giant is willing to go to adapt to the burgeoning open-source environment. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...

Oracle's recent release of three new commercial extensions to the MySQL database has caused an outcry among some in the MySQL community. Some, including project founder Michael "Monty" Widenius, are ...

Oracle on Monday announced a series of measures designed to help convince the European Commission to approve the company's takeover of Sun, steps the Commission described as "significant". Oracle ...

It may be time for Oracle to donate MySQL -- as it did with OpenOffice -- to The Apache Foundation, or another open source house. It's no secret that the Redwood Shores, Calif. company acquired Sun, ...

Ever since Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, MySQL users have been nervous about Oracle’s commitment to the open source database, given Oracle’s own database product line. At the O’Reilly MySQL Conference ...

Since Oracle launched its MySQL HeatWave service in December 2020, it has continuously driven differentiation in the database-as-a-service market. While competing against some of the biggest names in ...

Oracle has updated its MySQL Cluster software to make it more appealing to large Web service providers, among other users of large-volume distributed databases. MySQL Cluster 7.2, released for general ...

Want to discourage people from buying something? Make it so expensive that they take a pass. And that's exactly what Oracle (ORCL) has begun to do with the open source database MySQL that has been a ...

An Oracle advertisement in the European edition of The Wall Street Journal commits to greater investments in Sun hardware and Solaris software, but has absolutely nothing to say about MySQL. Matt Asay ...