Code that Microsoft made available under a public licence earlier this year will be in the next production release of the open-source database MySQL MySQL developers have used Microsoft source ...

When 100-percent open-source companies like Red Hat and MySQL rejig the way they release code (while still releasing it and fully complying with open-source licenses), they get tarred and feathered.

MySQL and PostgreSQL are two popular open-source database products. The addition of stored procedures to MySQL 5.0 is designed to make the database more attractive to corporate customers.

To properly evaluate the strengths of PostgreSQL and MySQL, the two leading open-source databases, one must look at the history and pedigree of each, and their feature functionality and ...

MySQL and PostgreSQL are two popular open-source database products. The addition of stored procedures to MySQL 5.0 is designed to make the database more attractive to corporate customers.

YouTube engineers are developing a set of software, called Vitess, that will help open-source MySQL databases work more efficiently in very large-scale production environments. To write the code ...