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.

The rift divided MySQL and PHP, software that lets computers construct customized Web pages on the fly. The two packages are found side by side so often--along with the Linux operating system and the ...

Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and other tech media. Asay has also held a variety of executive roles with leading mobile and big data software ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA — Since its founding in 1995, MySQL has managed to establish itself as the provider of the best-known open source database on the market and hopes to dent the armor of big name ...

Open source is no longer considered the wild underdog, but it will need more new companies making money off the trend, the one-time CEO of MySQL stressed Wednesday at the EclipseCon 2010 conference.

It’s interesting to see the response to this week’s announcement of MySQL’s new Query Analyzer (part of the subscription offering) and the forthcoming 5.1 release of the server. There’s been a lot of ...

Infobright on Monday unwrapped a new version of its open source data warehouse for analytics — and shared its lofty expectations for the product. “What MySQL did for databases, letting the low end of ...

Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. MariaDB, the commercial company behind the popular open source database of the same name, has confirmed plans to become ...

The upcoming MySQL 4.1 release will, according to documentation on the group's Web site, use the latest version of the Microsoft Windows Installer available for the Windows 200 and XP operating ...

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, ...