Oracle was previously slated over how it handled MySQL – the company now has a new plan to involve the community.

Members of the MySQL community are calling on Oracle to establish a foundation for the project, with an open letter that lays out a few pressing concerns affecting MySQL today. “We see MySQL kind of ...

It takes time, leadership, and a fair amount of luck to successfully build an open-source community. It also takes money. Lots of it, if IBM's $1 billion commitment to Linux is any indication.

The drivers and benefits of using open source in the enterprise have been widely documented. Ultimately, enterprise users adopt open source for two primary reasons: cost and vendor independence. These ...