Open-source advocates and industry watchers saw benefits to Sun's acquisition of MySQL that could mean greater use of open-source software in enterprise IT and more financial security to MySQL.

The latest Ubuntu Server 9.10 version includes a copy of MySQL. "The EU's sophistication on open-source matters may make them inclined to overreact. In fact, they have little to worry about." ...

About MySQL and Postgres MySQL was originally open source, but it was bought and taken partially commercial by Oracle in 2010. To ensure it remained a free and independent open source project, the ...