With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL is designed to let users ...

Two years later, MySQL was acquired for $1bn by Sun Microsystems, which in turn was bought by Oracle for $7.4bn in 2010. By then, some of the database's original creators had already left to ...

This article will tell you the difference between MySQL and SQL Server in brief. SQL stands for Structured Query Language. MySQL is a database management system, like SQL Server, Oracle, Informix ...

Oracle’s handling of MySQL has been closely watched by community members who use and help develop the database, which it acquired through the purchase of Sun Microsystems in 2010.

Oracle probably didn't understand MySQL well enough to want to buy the open-source start-up, now part of Sun. Like a knife and screwdriver, their products are complementary.

A database is an organized collection of structured data, typically stored electronically in a computer system. ... like MySQL, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server to query, update, and manage the data.

Oracle has introduced JavaScript support in the MySQL database, allowing developers to write JavaScript stored programs, i.e. JavaScript functions and procedures, in the MySQL database server.