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News The study found the market is led by MySQL - bought by Sun in February for $1bn, more than the total size of the market - with other popular choices including Ingres, Oracle-owned BerkeleyDB, PostgreSQL, which forms the basis for commercial... [24 Jul 2008]
Sun heats up open-source with MySQL buy
News Sun Microsystems are to pay $1bn for MySQL, the maker of a popular open-source database. Sun said it will pay about $800m in cash for MySQL's privately held stock and will assume about $200m worth of options. [16 Jan 2008]
Macs versus PCs - the battle continues
News All we have to do is get people to start using OpenOffice and MySQL. silicon.com's continuing coverage of the Mac vs PC debate has sparked a furious debate among readers keen to defend their platform of choice. [18 Jul 2007]
In Brief: Apple gets social, YouTube goes mobile, Yahoo! upholds censorship and IT disappoints
News In contract wins, online community and classifieds site Gumtree - which boasts 200 million page views per month - has chosen MySQL's open source database to store all its transaction data and power its searches. [13 Jun 2007]
Red Hat unwraps software exchange
News The RHX partnership list is a who's-who of open source server companies: JasperSoft and Pentaho for business intelligence; EnterpriseDB and MySQL for databases; Alfresco for document management; Compiere for enterprise resource planning; Zimbra... [11 May 2007]
Red Hat to sell open-source buddies' wares
News Open source software companies available through the exchange include: Centric CRM, Compiere, Enterprise DB, Groundwork Open Source, JasperSoft, MySQL, SugarCRM, Zenoss, Zimbra and Zmanda. Red Hat, planning a new expansion beyond its core Linux... [15 Mar 2007]
Apple issues OS X mega-patch
News It deals with vulnerabilities in the Mac maker's own software, as well as third-party components such as Adobe Systems' Flash Player, MySQL and OpenSSH. Apple has issued a security update for its Mac OS X to plug 45 security holes, including... [14 Mar 2007]
Second Life software goes open source
News Linden Lab released the viewer software under the General Public Licence (GPL), the licence that governs the Linux kernel, Samba file server software, the MySQL database and thousands of other projects. [09 Jan 2007]
MySQL puts off automatic move to GPL 3
News Open source database company MySQL has decided to stick to the current General Public Licence (GPL) rather than move to an upcoming revision, pending broader industry acceptance. MySQL, one of the most successful commercial ventures to use the open... [05 Jan 2007]
Should Oracle fear open source?
News The biggest threat to Oracle's dominance of the market could be open source competitors such as MySQL, analysts said. A Gartner analyst disagreed, pointing out that even though open source software sellers such as Ingres and MySQL did only made up... [26 May 2006]
Red Hat-JBoss union: Open source comes of age
News In the database realm, Oracle sought, but failed, to acquire MySQL, a successful open source company that earned almost $40m in 2005. Some people, including Don Dodge, an executive in Microsoft's emerging business group, note that only a small... [11 Apr 2006]
Oracle made a move on MySQL
News Oracle tried to acquire open source database maker MySQL, an indication of the profound changes the software giant is willing to make as it adapts to the increasingly significant collaborative programming philosophy. [16 Feb 2006]
Open source overhaul: GPLv3 on the way
News Since then, it's been used to govern Linux, MySQL, Samba and thousands of other open source projects. A major revamp of the General Public License (GPL) is scheduled for public release next week, a move that's expected to kick off a long and vocal... [12 Jan 2006]
US government funds open source bug hunt
News The list of open-source projects that Stanford and Coverity plan to check for security bugs includes Apache, BIND, Ethereal, KDE, Linux, Firefox, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSSL and MySQL, Coverity said. The US Department of Homeland Security is... [11 Jan 2006]
CA spins off Ingres database arm
News While the enterprise database market is now dominated by IBM, Oracle and Microsoft - which launched its latest version of SQL Server today - open source alternatives, especially MySQL, have recently started to turn heads. [07 Nov 2005]
