BOSTON--Open-source software company MySQL has revamped its pricing and licensing practices in an effort to make its database more attractive to corporate customers. On Tuesday, the company ...

MySQL is owned and sponsored by the Swedish firm MySQL AB, a for-profit firm. It holds the copyright to most of their code base and touts more than 11 million installations of the software ...

MySQL used to be easier to set up and faster in certain usage scenarios, but Postgresql is so much better designed that it now kicks MySQL's ass for anything more complicated than a simple website.

“For a time, some developers avoided MySQL for commercial applications because it did not implement certain features, such as transactions. But this is no longer the case, and MySQL is a great ...

MySQL will continue to use the commercial license for those customers that embed the company's database in other products, such as other software providers. Through the MySQL Network program ...