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Devs begin to assess options for MySQL's future beyond Oracle

As Big Red's governance of the popular database comes into question, contributors to MySQL consider wresting control ...
ZDNet

Is it time for Oracle to donate MySQL to Apache?

It may be time for Oracle to donate MySQL -- as it did with OpenOffice -- to The Apache Foundation, or another open source house. It's no secret that the Redwood Shores, Calif. company acquired Sun, ...
Forbes

Oracle Adds New AI-Enabling Features To MySQL HeatWave

Oracle is synonymous with database. In fact, the company has about six different databases to solve whatever data management problem you have. Are you still running OpenVMS? Oracle will hook you up ...
CNET

Oracle tried to buy open-source MySQL

Move reveals just how far the software giant is willing to go to adapt to the burgeoning open-source environment. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...
ZDNet

Is MySQL done under Oracle or is there a fork in its future?

With Oracle acquiring Sun Microsystems, it also acquires MySQL, the poster child for open-source applications. (Not to mention Solaris, which Sun says is a larger Linux distribution than Red Hat.) ...
ITWire

iTWire - Oracle brings in-memory analytics to MySQL

MySQL is widely used for transaction processing databases, but it has usually been necessary to extract data into a separate database for analytics work. "The Oracle MySQL Database Service with the ...
ITWire

iTWire - Oracle commits: MySQL will have a future

Non-assertion. As copyright holder, Oracle will change Sun's current policy and shall not assert or threaten to assert against anyone that a third party vendor's implementations of storage engines ...