The business application powerhouse plans to incorporate MySQL's open-source database software into some of its products, which should speed up development of the program. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Business application powerhouse SAP is tapping MySQL's open-source database software in a deal that should let the smaller company accelerate its development plans. The move, announced Tuesday, should ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

As open source software grows more popular, and important, developers face an existential question: How to make money from something you give away for free? The Open Source Initiative standards body ...

Open-source software has reshaped many IT disciplines, and the world of database administration (DBA) is no exception. The open-source community, and the software it has produced, has evolved into a ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

Oracle continues to dominate the database software market, but challenges lie ahead from open source, analysts say. Research firms IDC and Gartner both predicted continued growth in worldwide sales of ...

The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 is the premier event for the diverse and active open source database community, as well as businesses that develop and use open source database ...

Sybase is considering how it could make some parts of its database software available under an open-source license to customers and developers in China, a company executive said Wednesday. “We could ...

DURHAM, N.C., Oct. 15, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Percona, a leader in open source database software and services, today announced the results of its Open Source Software Database Survey. More than 830 ...