MySQL's sales catching up with Red Hat's The open-source database leader just had an $81 million quarter, making the $1 billion valuation of acquirer Sun Microsystems start to look like a bargain.

At one time MySQL and Red Hat faced off as competitors. Three years ago, Red Hat launched a version of PostgreSQL as an open-source database under the Red Hat Database brand, but the effort flopped.

Red Hat Inc. has invested an unspecified amount in open-source database vendor EnterpriseDB Inc., a sign that the Linux vendor may be worried about the implications of Oracle Corp.’s takeover of ...

Red Hat will switch the default database in its enterprise distribution, RHEL, from MySQL to MariaDB, when version 7 is released.

This was reported the same afternoon. Red Hat's decision to switch is a major slap in the face for Oracle which owns MySQL; it acquired the database when it bought Sun Microsystems in 2009.

Red Hat's move has several ramifications for the open-source database world, which includes projects such as PostgreSQL, MySQL and Interbase and several companies using the software.

Red Hat has invested an unspecified amount in open source database vendor EnterpriseDB, a sign that the Linux vendor may be worried about the implications of Oracle’s takeover of MySQL through ...