The rift divided MySQL and PHP, software that lets computers construct customized Web pages on the fly.The two packages are found side by side so often--along with the Linux operating system and ...

Engineering teams from Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter have begun work on WebScaleSQL, an open source project designed to address the challenges of running MySQL at Web scale.

Although MySQL will be working closely with Sun, Arno also emphasizes the fact that the LAMP stack is here to stay. "I don't expect [closer ties with Java and Solaris] in any way to be at the cost ...