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MySQL, the open source relational database that came to Oracle through the Sun Microsystems acquisition, originated as a relatively simple relational database that was known for one task: transaction ...

It's tempting to speculate that Oracle 's bid for Sun Microsystems is a convenient way to kill off open-source database wonder, MySQL. But MySQL's former chief executive, Mårten Mickos, sees things ...

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 ...

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Ever since Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, MySQL users have been nervous about Oracle’s commitment to the open source database, given Oracle’s own database product line. At the O’Reilly MySQL Conference ...

Speculation has been running rampant that Oracle may introduce its own NoSQL database at the OpenWorld conference, to be held next week in San Francisco. While Oracle thus far has been quiet about the ...

Oracle has pushed out MySQL 5.6, a development milestone release of the open-source database management system. MySQL, the development of which has been stewarded by Oracle since its takeover of Sun, ...

Administrators who support Java applications and various Oracle databases should pay close attention to the latest quarterly security update from Oracle, as more than a third of the security fixes ...

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