9 articles in this selection

2010/11/05

A catchy headline, and I believe more accurate than Oracle Puts the Squeeze on SMBs with MySQL Price Hike (Network World) and MySQL price hikes reveal depth of Oracle’s wallet love [MySQL Jacking up MySQL Prices] (The Register). Slightly more realistic is Oracle kills low-priced MySQL support (again The Register)....

2009/12/15

Slashdot discussion about a statement that Oracle released to address some of the issues surrounding the MySQL purchase. Among their commitments, Oracle says they intend to continue releasing MySQL under the GPL, allow vendors to produce 'any-license' third-party engines, maintain the Reference Manual, invest millions into the product, and create a 'customer advisory board.' The pledges are still not enough for some, however....

2009/12/15

Slashdot posting about a blog post from MySQL co-founder Monty Widenius calling for help to "save MySQL from Oracle's clutches." While the US DoJ approved Oracle's purchase of Sun back in August, the European Commission has been less forthcoming. Widenius points out that Oracle has been using their customers to put pressure on the EC, and he questions Oracle's commitment to MySQL, saying their vague promises aren't good enough....

2009/06/17

The MySQL May conference keynote videos and presentations files are all posted so you can download the ones you're interested in now. Embedded below is the video and slide deck for my keynote on Thursday. The gist of this presentation is that business intelligence and analytics are the #1 IT spending priority, BI technology is becoming a commodity, open source BI and DW tools are maturing, and the supporting stats about open source BI and DW adoption....

2009/06/16

ScaleDB is a storage engine that plugs into MySQL, enabling it to deliver enterprise-class scalability that rivals far more expensive commercial databases. By leveraging clusters of low-cost commodity servers and eliminating manpower-intensive data partitioning (or sharding), ScaleDB delivers a far superior total cost of ownership (TCO)....

2009/04/30

InfoWorld — Infobright on Monday unwrapped a new version of its open source data warehouse for analytics -- and shared its lofty expectations for the product. "What MySQL did for databases, letting the low end of the market use a great database, we're concentrating on doing for data warehousing," said Susan Davis, Infobright's director of product management and marketing....

2008/04/22

MySQL Workbench enables a DBA, developer, or data architect to visually design, generate, and manage all types of databases including Web, OLTP, and data warehouse databases. It includes everything a data modeler needs for creating complex ER models, and...

2008/01/16

This morning, Sun Microsystems announced plans to acquire MySQL AB.

2008/01/16

Times of change are upon the database market. The major established