MySQL News

• Open source developers oppose Oracle's MySQL acquisitionProminent open source software developers have joined forces with those opposed to Oracle assuming control of MySQL if Oracle's proposed $7.4bn acquisition of S...News Date: 12:51 23 Oct 2009
• Sun buys MySQL for £500mSun has acquired the open source database MySQL for £500m, in a bid to establish a foothold in the database market and offer users open source database tools to...News Date: 16:06 16 Jan 2008
• Former MySQL CEO leaves SunFormer MySQL CEO Marten Mickos is leaving Sun Microsystems. He is the third senior MySQL executive to leave since Sun's acquisition of the open source database...News Date: 14:43 09 Feb 2009
• MySQL sets support deadline for open source databaseMySQL has introduced a support lifecycle policy, setting out how long it will provide support and updates for current and older versions of the open source dat...News Date: 15:25 18 Jul 2006

• MySQL cofounder says Oracle should sell database | ITworldOracle should resolve antitrust concerns over its acquisition of Sun Microsystems by selling open-source database MySQL to a suitable third party, its cofounder and creator Michael Monty Widenius said in a blog...News Source: www.itworld.com Date: 15:10 19 Oct 2009
• MySQL :: MySQL Web SeminarsSpeed up application performance, simplify your datacenter and see cost and energy savings with Sun's Open Network System for MySQL - integrating and optimizing compute technologies and featuring the Intel Xeon...News
• MySQL creator: Oracle should sell MySQL to get Sun (AFX)HELSINKI Oct 19 - Oracle Corp should resolve antitrust concerns over its acquisition of Sun by committing to selling Sun's open source database MySQL Michael Widenius the creator of MySQL said on MondayNews Source: uk.biz.yahoo.com Date: 09:20 19 Oct 2009
• MySQL set for its first Sun-era upgradeSun is to set offer developers a major upgrade of MySQL , the first since it acquired the company earlier this year. The company is set to make the announcement at a MySQL conference in California. MySQL 5.News

• Blog-City uses open source MySQLLike many organisations, Blog-City relies heavily on its database for its daily business. But interestingly, Blog-City has chosen to underpin its business with ...In Depth Date: 12:18 24 Jan 2008
• Hot skils: MySQL 5.1Sun missed this qualification when it quoted Gartner's report in the launch of MySQL 5.1 in December. But big analysts have become a lot more positive towards open source databases.In Depth Date: 11:16 22 Jan 2009
• MySQL database skills cheap to maintain but pay less than OracleMySQL is an open source relational database management system that is widely used for web applications and embedded applications.In Depth Date: 01:00 01 Nov 2005
• Hot skills: MySQLSun's agreement to purchase MySQL AB will consolidate commercial use of the open source originated database, although MySQL was already doing pretty well on it...In Depth Date: 16:48 26 Feb 2008

• MDB to MySQL Database ConverterMDB to MySQL Database Converter. MS Access to MySQL database conversion software helps to convert database created in MDB or MS Access format to MySQL format. MDB to MySQL file migration utility converts MDB da...Pressrelease Source: www.prlog.org Date: 05:31 06 Nov 2009
• MySQL :: The world's most popular open source database“Automation of DBA functions can help reduce complexity, minimize human errors, improve overall productivity, and lower costs… Forrester estimates that enterprises can typically save 15% or more in costs by way...Web
• MySQL buy 'validates' modelSun’s $1bn acquisition of MySQL has been described as “validating” the open source model.Enterprise Source: www.microscope.co.uk
• Adaptec MaxIQ(TM) Accelerates Performance of MySQL by Up to 8xAdaptec MaxIQ(TM) Accelerates Performance of MySQL by Up to 8x. Faster Throughput and Increased Transactions using MaxIQ SSD Cache Performance Solution Demonstrated by AppLabs Performance Testing.Pressrelease Source: www.prnewswire.com Date: 08:01 03 Nov 2009

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Video: Why did Oracle buy BEA and Sun buy MySQL

Video | www.computerweekly.com| 22 Jan 2008

In this week's highlights we discuss the two big acquisitions in the tech market last week with Oracle finally buying middleware company BEA and Sun purchasing MySQL.

• Why is Sun buying MySQL?It's hard to predict the Sun acquisition is good news for MySQL users. Judging from the 100m downloads, they seem pretty happy with the open source approach. Let's hope Sun doesn't change that.Blog Date: 18:56 16 Jan 2008
• Can business take open source seriously?What's interesting from speaking to Mickos is that MySQL is being used in large-scale enterprise system. It's behind the advertising engine on Google and MySQL powers FaceBook.Blog Date: 22:44 26 Nov 2007

• Mysql competition by AmazonI wrote at several occasions, that this "Oracle purchase of Sun will limit database competition" isn't true as you can eBlog Source: www.c0t0d0s0.org Date: 12:35 06 Nov 2009
• MySQL corruptionWe have a fair number of customers who contact us with MySQL corruption horror stories. Hopefully this blog article will help them recover their database.Blog
• MySQL University: GRAPH computation engine for MySQLThis Thursday (November 5th, 10:00 UTC - note the different time for this session!), Arjen Lentz of Open Query will present the brand new <aBlog Source: blogs.sun.com Date: 08:47 03 Nov 2009
• Reporting on disk space usage for PostgreSQL and MySQL databases | Summersault BlogSELECT pg_database.datname, pg_shadow.usename AS “owner”, database_size(pg_database.datname) AS size, pg_size_pretty(database_size(pg_database.datname)) AS pretty_size FROM pg_database JOIN pg_shadow ON pg_data...Blog