Sun's agreement to purchase MySQL AB will consolidate commercial use of the open source originated database, although MySQL was already doing pretty well on its own.
Like many organisations, Blog-City relies heavily on its database for its daily business. But interestingly, Blog-City has chosen to underpin its business with the free and open source database MySQL, which is entirely community supported.
A key plank of Oracle's strategy for growth over the next few years is to reposition itself as a strategic partner rather than simply remain a technology supplier in key enterprise accounts.
Sun 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 compliment its growing family of open source products.
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Aluminium supplier Alcoa has upgraded its multi-terabyte data warehouse to Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters to improve efficiency.
Db4o (Database for Objects) is an open source object database for Java and .net developers. It is claimed to be the only database that is native to both Java and .net.