Oracle isn't going to give up on its acquisition of MySQL because MySQL is a strategic wedge for it against Microsoft. Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, ...

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European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes told Oracle last month it had failed to diminish worries that the purchase would hurt competition. The EU has until Jan. 19 to decide whether it will ...

Code that Microsoft made available under a public license earlier this year will be used in the next production release of open-source database MySQL. The Microsoft source code will be used in version ...

"It's really about choice," Rohan Kumar, Microsoft's General Manager, Database Systems, told me yesterday as he briefed me on the new offerings. Kumar further explained: "if you're a developer, you ...