It takes time, leadership, and a fair amount of luck to successfully build an open-source community. It also takes money. Lots of it, if IBM's $1 billion commitment to Linux is any indication.

Oracle is now seeing the MySQL database user base as an opportunity, unlike two years ago, when Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said users of the open source product are not the people who would buy Oracle ...

Chances are, your data center depends upon a MySQL database server or two. If that is the case, you’ll want to make sure your databases are set up with an eye to security. Thankfully, MySQL offers a ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Hewlett-Packard is turning itself into a one-stop support shop for MySQL database users. On April 25, HP plans to announce at the MySQL Users Conference here that it is expanding ...

MySQL is a common database amongst many organizations. As such, when building an automation script that needs to query data from somewhere, you might run into the need to query a MySQL database. By ...

Two critical privilege escalation vulnerabilities in MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona Server for MySQL can help take control of the whole server, which is very bad for shared environments MySQL, MariaDB, ...

SAN JOSE, CA and HELSINKI, FINLAND--(Marketwire - Sep 25, 2012) - SkySQL, the trusted provider of open source database solutions, has announced a new enterprise suite for the MySQL® & MariaDB® open ...

Get up to speed on MySQL basics with this step-by-step tutorial on how to create a database, add a table, and input data into the table. I talk a lot about server software and apps that require the ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Open-source database maker MySQL AB launched the first ...

Responding to growing demand for a professional level backup and recovery solution, Zmanda, a leading vendor for open source backup solutions, has introduced an Ubuntu server version of their Zmanda ...