Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Oracle has acquired open-source database vendor Sleepycat Software, strengthening its hand in the embedded database market and putting to rest at least one of the rumors about its plans to buy ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL, which uses SQL ...

Oracle scooped up another small technology maker on Friday, announcing its acquisition of Finnish open-source database technology developer Innobase OY. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Sony Online Entertainment Inc. is starting to move away from the Oracle databases that are the foundation of its online games, opting instead for a 2-year-old commercial open-source database based on ...

Oracle database administrators (DBAs) face significant challenges in managing consistency, efficient collaboration, and complex database schema changes across multiple environments. Manual processes ...

Combines Oracle Autonomous AI Database with vendor-independent Apache Iceberg enabling customers to run AI and analytics securely on all their data Now available on OCI, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and ...

Nearly 200 developers, users, and companies from the MySQL ecosystem have urged Oracle in an open letter to reconsider the future governance of the open-source database. The letter was published after ...

Oracle has proposed a project to the Eclipse open-source foundation to ease creation of high-end Java applications. The company said it intends to spearhead the Eclipse project and make contributions ...

AI database innovation at Oracle drives a redesigned data platform with vector search, AI agents, stronger privacy controls ...

Sony Online Entertainment Inc. has started a shift from Oracle to open-source software with the signing of a deal to use database technology from EnterpriseDB Corp. As part of an effort to cut ...