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 ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — MySQL AB and IBM announced Wednesday that users of the latter’s System i hardware line will be able to run the MySQL open-source database on the midrange servers. The System i ...

Walldorf, Germany-based SAP will continue to offer the product, which will be renamed. Both databases are respected in the open-source world, but SAP DB, by virtue of its presence in SAP ERP accounts, ...

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 ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

A number of influential members of the open-source community are raising their voices about Oracle Corp.'s pending takeover of the open source MySQL database. Surprisingly, many are not opposing the ...

A Chinese software vendor has brushed aside speculation that its enterprise product, which uses code from Oracle Corp's MySQL open-source relational database management system, faces the risk of ...