MySQL has become perhaps the most visible player in the open source database market. With revenues now at $20 million annually, the company is eyeing a greater enterprise presence with its upcoming ...

Sun Microsystems will pay US$1 billion for Swedish software company MySQL, whose open-source database is used for some of the most widely visited Web sites in the world. Sun said the deal will augment ...

Walldorf, Germany-based SAP will continue to offer the product, which will be renamed. Both databases are respected in the open-source world, but SAP DB, by virtue of its presence in SAP ERP accounts, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — As the CEO of Sweden-based open-source database vendor MySQL AB, Marten Mickos knows about the role open-source software can play in business and personal computing. Despite a growing ...

Sun’s open source buy of MySQL deftly positions both companies in a high-growth enterprise market for a new generation of Web-based applications. Exactly where Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft also plan to ...

BOSTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Business computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc said on Friday that two top executives with its mySQL open-source database unit are leaving the company. Marten Mickos, a senior ...