ZDNet

Open-source MariaDB, a MySQL fork, challenges Oracle

MariaDB, an open-source database management system (DBMS) and MySQL fork has been gaining inroads in enterprise software and its founders formed a foundation, the MariaDB Foundation, to promote its ...
ZDNet

Oracle who? Fedora & openSUSE will replace MySQL with MariaDB

For database developers and managers, this change shouldn't be a problem. MariaDB, a MySQL fork founded by the original MySQL developers, is designed to be a drop-in replacement for the MySQL Database ...
eWeek

MySQL Scores the Brains Behind Firebird

MySQL has hired Jim Starkey, creator of the InterBase database—which later became the popular open-source Firebird database—in addition to scooping up Starkeys one-man Firebird-based company, ...
Ars Technica

The setting Sun: responses to the acquisition

Oracle's acquisition of Sun last month raised many questions about the future of Sun's core technologies, especially the company's popular open source software projects. Some of those questions have ...
VentureBeat

Sun plans to acquire MySQL for $1B, Oracle to buy BEA for $8.5B

Sun said today it will acquire open source database company MySQL for about $1 billion, a deal that would keep Sun at the center of the thriving open source software industry (see the announcement ...