But Oracle has promised to make development of the Community Edition of the database more transparent and inclusive, and to ...

Big Red waves new features including vector support, while skeptics await concrete timescales Oracle has proposed a more transparent approach to developing its open source database MySQL, including ...

The company releases a developer version of MySQL 5.0, which can create and run stored procedures, a feature common to commercial databases. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

First it was Oracle buying Innobase(though Oracle has so far played fair). Now it's IBM buying Solid Information Technology. Given much of the proprietary world's public attitude toward open source ...

For Sun Microsystems Inc., the acquisition of open-source database vendor MySQL AB is a positive step, giving Sun its own database and a growing, loyal community of open-source users and developers to ...