On the heels of yesterday's Steve Jobs keynote at Macworld, Apple may be the tech company that's top of mind for many readers. However, from an enterprise computing perspective, Sun Microsystem's ...

The MySQL version 8.0 release candidate was announced in a recent blog post by MySQL highlighting all of the new features that are going to hit the books. First off, you may be asking yourself, “MySQL ...

With Sun Microsystems’ $1 billion acquisition of open source database vendor MySQL announced Wednesday, Sun gets ownership of a major player in the open source software industry while MySQL gets the ...

As the world's most popular open source database, MySQL's speed, reliability, and ease of use have made user-generated content and social media available to the masses. In the 18 months since the ...

More than 500 developers are urging Oracle to consider a vendor-neutral foundation for MySQL, warning that limited community input could slow innovation and fragment the ecosystem.

New 500TB TPC-H* benchmarks demonstrate 17X faster query performance vs. Snowflake; 36X faster than Google BigQuery; and 17X faster than Databricks AUSTIN, Texas, July 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle ...

The MySQL community is mostly neutral or positive about the open-source database's prospects under Oracle's stewardship, according to a newly released study. The MySQL community is mostly neutral or ...

At its annual users’ conference and expo, MySQL AB presented a three-phase roadmap by which its two open source database products, MySQL and MaxDB, would merge into a single product line certified for ...

An open letter signed by architects, DBAs, and engineers argues that closed development, missing AI‑era features, and declining commits demand a foundation-led model that includes Oracle but restores ...

Distro: Slackware (not sure of version)<BR>Linux: 2.4.16<BR><BR>couldn't find MySQL installation files, so I don't know what version it is. I did notice that it was in the startup sequence (/usr/local ...