A community claiming to represent the interests of MySQL users and developers has launched the OurSQL Foundation, with the ...

MariaDB founder Ulf Michael "Monty" Widenius says that Oracle has failed to make a success of MySQL because the company doesn't understand open source. "It's not in their blood," Widenius, one of the ...

Red Hat disses Oracle, and expounds on its open source strategy. It’s been said that Oracle is now the industry’s most powerful open source vendor, but don’t tell that to Red Hat executives, who say ...

The open-source Oracle Call Interface 8 driver repairs a flaw that led to PHP-based Web apps overwhelming Oracle databases with requests Oracle has released a database driver free to the open-source ...

Oracle Corp. put out a 19-page white paper last month that pilloried the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments for thinking open source software can save money. “At first glance it might seem that ...