Microsoft fired another salvo in the database wars by announcing a new toolkit to help users migrate their databases from MySQL to SQL Server -- or SQL Azure, the new cloud offering. In a Data ...

Though some MySQL developers worry that the acquisition will stifle growth in their community, others see Sun as providing reassurance to skittish IT workers Customers at the MySQL conference this ...

It takes time, leadership, and a fair amount of luck to successfully build an open-source community. It also takes money. Lots of it, if IBM's $1 billion commitment to Linux is any indication.

Continuent, Inc., a provider of replication and clustering solutions for open source databases, and SkySQL Ab, a provider of solutions for the MySQL database in the enterprise and cloud, have ...