MySQL expands open-source database The company releases a developer version of MySQL 5.0, which can create and run stored procedures, a feature common to commercial databases.

MySQL originator Monty Widenius and Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev have recently formed the Open Database Alliance (ODA), a vendor-neutral consortium that aims to become a hub for the MySQL open source ...

MySQL may compete for database business with IBM, but that didn't stop the two vendors from agreeing to let MySQL's namesake open-source software run on IBM's System i servers and use DB2 as a ...

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA — Since its founding in 1995, MySQL has managed to establish itself as the provider of the best-known open source database on the market and hopes to dent the armor of big ...