Oracle was previously slated over how it handled MySQL – the company now has a new plan to involve the community.

Oracle has promised a new phase in its custodianship of MySQL following the creation of a lobby group concerned about its ...

Observers say that Oracle's acquisition of MySQL will not be damaging to MySQL itself and question the motives of some detractors A number of influential members of the open-source community are ...

It's far too early to count Oracle out of the database wars. According to a new report from DB-Engines, a site that tracks the popularity of database technologies, Oracle was not only the most widely ...

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 ...

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Salesforce has been increasingly looking into PostgreSQL, an open source database, and hiring people who could provide some alternative to Oracle. The rationale is clear: Salesforce needs to diversify ...

Database giant Oracle announced Monday that it will buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50 per share—roughly $7.4 billion. The two companies reached an agreement after an unsuccessful bid by IBM fell short at ...

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) kicked off a full week of partner programming at Oracle OpenWorld 2014. OPN Central @ OpenWorld welcomed 8,000 partners from around the globe to learn about Oracle's key ...