Databases

Red Hat invests in EnterpriseDB with eye on Oracle and MySQL

Investment in the open source database vendor is a sign Red Hat may be worried about the implications of Oracle's coming takeover of MySQL

Who Should Oracle Sell MySQL To?

Update: EU chides Oracle over lack of cooperation in probe of Sun deal

Europe's competition commissioner says Oracle has failed to help address its concerns

Teradata: We still rule over Oracle, IBM in analytics

Business intelligence vendor says IBM's and Oracle's technologies remain fundamentally unsuited for high-performance analytics

Richard Stallman joins call for Oracle to divest MySQL

Prominent software activist says Oracle must be prevented from taking control of MySQL, urges Europe's antitrust regulator to demand divestment

MySQL cofounder says Oracle should sell database

MySQL needs a home where there will be no conflicts of interest, says the creator of the open-source database

EnterpriseDB cites enterprise capabilities in open source database

The company's Postgres Plus Standard Server 8.4 features an updating service, a migration tool for Oracle databases, and a certification suite

Cloud vendor Zimory adds database oomph using virtualization

With Zimory's new database architecture, code-named Spree, customers will be able to mix and match open source and commercial databases

Oracle says the no-cost 11g Xpress Edition is still at least a year away

Users say Oracle's rollout plan shows the company doesn't really have an interest in driving adoption of the free database

IBM touts new DB2 grid feature as Oracle ‘Exadata-killer’

New pureScale clustering feature will enable companies to scale out their DB2 clusters without paying an enormous performance cost, IBM says