While PostgreSQL has thrived in recent years, MySQL has languished. MySQL backers are coming together to change that.

It takes time, leadership, and a fair amount of luck to successfully build an open-source community. It also takes money. Lots of it, if IBM's $1 billion commitment to Linux is any indication.

This month MySQL turns 30. Once the bedrock of web development, MySQL remains immensely popular. But as MySQL enters its fourth decade, it ironically has sown the seeds of its own decline, especially ...

The most simply-named product names can sometimes have the most surprising of origins. Behind two of the world’s most widely-used database management ...