Oracle moves to assure MySQL community it really does care

Big Red waves new features including vector support, while skeptics await concrete timescales Oracle has proposed a more ...
Yahoo

Postgres pushes past MySQL in developer hearts

This article, Postgres pushes past MySQL in developer hearts, originally appeared on TechRepublic.com. Postgres has never been considered cool. Ever the ugly stepchild to MySQL, Postgres disciples ...
Network World

MySQL developers release 5.5 beta

The MySQL developer community has released the first public iteration of what will be the next version of MySQL, version 5.5. MySQL database administrators are encouraged to test MySQL Server 5.5.0-m2 ...
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As Oracle loses interest in MySQL, devs mull future options

Developers in the MySQL community are working together to challenge Oracle to improve transparency and commitment in its handling of the popular open source database, while considering other options, ...
Forbes

JSON, Emojis, GIS, And GraalVM: MySQL 8.0 Speaks To Modern Developers In Their Language

The world’s most popular open source database is MySQL, and it is used by plenty of hip companies like Facebook, Slack, Airbnb, Alibaba, and the world’s biggest web property, Tencent (which owns ...
Campus Technology

MySQL Creators Move to Keep MySQL Open

MySQL originator Monty Widenius and Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev have recently formed the Open Database Alliance (ODA), a vendor-neutral consortium that aims to become a hub for the MySQL open source ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Oracle Points Windows Developers to MySQL

Forget all this touchy-feely open-source LAMP stack stuff--throw away your SQL Server and run our MySQL database on Windows. Okay, maybe the message wasn't quite that stark, but there's no doubt ...