Xeround offers a free subscription to a MySQL-based database as a service limited offering. Will this move popularize database as a service offerings? The simple answer is yes.

The company on Friday posted a "freebie" version of its 10g product to the Oracle Technical Network (OTN). Oracle Database 10g Express Edition, or XE, targets hobbyists, new database developers and ...

There's a lot to like about MySQL databases if you're a start-up, until success comes knocking a bit too fast. And that has now made Twoo the poster child for Clustrix, a San Francisco start-up ...

IIT Bombay has invited applications for a free online course on open source language and relational database management system PHP and MySQL ...

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Database firm CEO lists open source business models for free software “Free” in the software business does not necessarily mean free of charge, said MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, who reviewed a ...

If you plan to do database development with Java and MySQL, the first thing you’ll need to do is configure a database schema. Technically speaking, the first thing to do before you configure a schema ...

MySQL is a common database amongst many organizations. As such, when building an automation script that needs to query data from somewhere, you might run into the need to query a MySQL database. By ...

MySQL is the most popular open-source database among developers, according to a recent Evans Data study. IBM earlier this month released a free version of its own DB2 database as part of a PHP ...