With the move, announced Wednesday, Sun takes a big leap into the $15 billion database market and pits it against the likes of Microsoft, IBM and Oracle. MySQL (all resources) also gives Sun entry to ...

Database Management System (DBMS) software acts as an interface between an end user and a database and is designed to allow users to create databases as well as store, manipulate and manage data in an ...

Open-source database vendor MySQL and business intelligence (BI) software provider JasperSoft on Tuesday announced a joint reselling agreement. As part of the agreement, MySQL will resell Jasper for ...

Developed by Sweden's MySQL AB, MySQL 4.0 is a free, open-source database that offers real advantages—and real limitations—compared with the commercial packages in our roundup. Aiming for reliability ...

The Open Rights Group, Knowledge Ecology International, and U.S. software freedom activist Richard Stallman on Tuesday released an open letter to the European Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes ...

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 ...