Given recent maneuvers by proprietarydatabase vendors, it is apparent thatopen source is having an impact on the database software market. Two recent reports from major IT analysis firmsIDC andGartner ...

The business application powerhouse plans to incorporate MySQL's open-source database software into some of its products, which should speed up development of the program. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Business application powerhouse SAP is tapping MySQL's open-source database software in a deal that should let the smaller company accelerate its development plans. The move, announced Tuesday, should ...

As open source software grows more popular, and important, developers face an existential question: How to make money from something you give away for free? The Open Source Initiative standards body ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

DURHAM, N.C., Oct. 15, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Percona, a leader in open source database software and services, today announced the results of its Open Source Software Database Survey. More than 830 ...

The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 is the premier event for the diverse and active open source database community, as well as businesses that develop and use open source database ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--Getting Fortune 500 companies to adopt open source would be a lot easier if open-source advocates put their business hats on. That was the message from some Sun Microsystems and ...

Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev: Not the oldest CEO around, but he knows his computing history. In the beginning, all software was open. This was the opening gambit tabled by Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev ...

Databases were once the forgotten stepchild of the open-source family. Companies like Red Hat Inc. included database software with their Linux distribution disks, but the main focus was on the ...

SAN FRANCISCO--VA Software and IBM will announce a software partnership Tuesday, a move that highlights the tricky entanglements of the opposing open-source and proprietary programming philosophies.

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The co-founders of the open-source startup YugaByte have been working in the database business since the early 1990s. Now, the team is working on ...