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It's "the most important acquisition in Sun's history," CEO Schwartz says of buying the open-source database company. Next: accelerated development, GPLv3 licensing. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

With work under way to build the next version of the MySQL relational database software, Oracle is focusing much of its efforts on improving the software’s performance and replication capabilities, ...

The new fully managed, cloud-based offering, with an advanced analytics engine, makes it possible to run transaction processing and data analysis applications on the same database without the cost or ...