Software freedom activist Richard Stallman and others are trying to block Oracle's acquisition of MySQL. Why? Because MySQL is covered by the GNU Public License (GPL), and the purchase has exposed a ...

Big Red waves new features including vector support, while skeptics await concrete timescales Oracle has proposed a more ...

More than 500 developers are urging Oracle to consider a vendor-neutral foundation for MySQL, warning that limited community ...

The business application powerhouse plans to incorporate MySQL's open-source database software into some of its products, which should speed up development of the program. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

MySQL is the most popular database, according to a new tool that ranks various development tools according to their usage in the technology stacks used by various companies. Three-year-old start-up ...