Oracle is now seeing the MySQL database user base as an opportunity, unlike two years ago, when Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said users of the open source product are not the people who would buy Oracle ...

MySQL users are cautiously optimistic about life under Oracle, but say Larry Ellison’s team needs to offer a more detailed road map for development of the open source database. Under Sun Microsystems, ...

Customers at the MySQL conference this week said Sun Microsystems‘ acquisition of the database company could increase MySQL’s credibility among senior IT decision makers still skittish about using ...

It takes time, leadership, and a fair amount of luck to successfully build an open-source community. It also takes money. Lots of it, if IBM's $1 billion commitment to Linux is any indication.

One of the tasks nearly any sysadmin frequently encounters is the care and feeding of the MySQL database server. You can build an entire career around nothing but this topic—making you a DB admin, not ...

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Get up to speed on MySQL basics with this step-by-step tutorial on how to create a database, add a table, and input data into the table. I talk a lot about server software and apps that require the ...

Though some MySQL developers worry that the acquisition will stifle growth in their community, others see Sun as providing reassurance to skittish IT workers Customers at the MySQL conference this ...