With Oracle acquiring Sun Microsystems, it also acquires MySQL, the poster child for open-source applications. (Not to mention Solaris, which Sun says is a larger Linux distribution than Red Hat.) ...

MariaDB, an open-source database management system (DBMS) and MySQL fork has been gaining inroads in enterprise software and its founders formed a foundation, the MariaDB Foundation, to promote its ...

Oracle has brushed aside an outreach from the open-source database community seeking more cooperative support for the MySQL project. Many long-time MySQL contributors, engineers, and ecosystem leaders ...