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 ...

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"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 ...

The main rival to Sun's MySQL database has always been Oracle not Microsoft, the creator of MySQL said, as Europe nears an antitrust decision on Oracle's proposed $7 billion purchase of Sun. European ...

Both MySQL and PostgreSQL are now generally available on the Azure Database service, Microsoft announced recently. The two open source database management systems, which have been in preview on Azure ...