MIT professor Mike Stonebraker has been at the forefront of database technology for more than 50 years. The former Turing Award winner invented the Ingres and Postgres databases and helped launch a ...

The rumors started back in 1985. Somewhere in France, a 21-year-old programmer named Laurent Ribardiere was said to have written a database management system for Apple`s Macintosh that was more ...

A Chinese software vendor has brushed aside speculation that its enterprise product, which uses code from Oracle Corp’s MySQL open-source relational database management system, faces the risk of ...

Oracle introduced a new hosting service on Monday geared toward other software makers--the company's latest push to capitalize on the growing popularity of subscription software. The program, Oracle ...

Question: My favorite database program (AskSam 7) cannot be updated. Its developer in Perry, Florida went out of business years ago. I held my breath when installing it from its CD on my new computers ...