MySQL needs a home where there will be no conflicts of interest, says the creator of the open-source database Oracle should resolve antitrust concerns over its acquisition of Sun Microsystems by ...

Michael "Monty" Widenius says the European Commission is right to be concerned about the Oracle-Sun merger and urges Oracle to sell MySQL to settle antitrust issues. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

Following talks with European regulators regarding its planned Sun takeover, Oracle makes 10 commitments to help keep MySQL a competitive database product. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology ...

MariaDB, an open-source database management system (DBMS) and MySQL fork has been gaining inroads in enterprise software and its founders formed a foundation, the MariaDB Foundation, to promote its ...