The demand by the European Commission (the EU’s executive arm) that Oracle agree to spin out MySQL before approving its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun is unnecessary and destructive.

Amazon has launched its Relational Database Service in Europe, allowing businesses to set up on-demand MySQL 5.1 database instances on servers based in the region. The European Union launch ...

Database rivals MySQL and IBM on April 25 announced plans to bring support for the MySQL open-source database to the IBM System i business computing platform.

Ex-MySQL boss urges Europe to back Oracle-Sun deal. By David Neal. Oct 10 2009 8:10AM. Push merger forward. ...

The better part of valour. Having seen what the European Commission (EC) has inflicted on other US companies it deemed to be behaving in an anti-competitive way, Oracle boss Larry Ellision has ...

HELSINKI, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Michael Widenius, creator of MySQL database, which could become the stumbling block for Oracle <ORCL.O> in its Sun <JAVA.O> takeover, has launched an Internet campaign ...

A Chinese software vendor has brushed aside speculation that its enterprise product, which uses code from Oracle Corp's MySQL open-source relational database management system, faces the risk of ...

Exclusive - Open Ocean, a recently established venture capital firm co-founded by the investors who closed the $1 billion sale of MySQL to Sun Microsystems, has just finalized its Fund Three with ...