SQL stands for Structured Query Language. It’s a standard language for accessing and manipulating databases. MySQL is a database management system, like SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, Postgres, etc.

It may be time for Oracle to donate MySQL -- as it did with OpenOffice -- to The Apache Foundation, or another open source house. It's no secret that the Redwood Shores, Calif. company acquired Sun, ...

Oracle threw its own punches at Red Hat and Microsoft today by detailing expanding integration of its MySQL with Windows and Oracle's heftier databases in the 2011-12 timeframe. In a webcast today, ...

The news that Oracle will buy Sun for $7.4 billion is a stunner — and one that will be especially hard to figure out for the Microsoft world. One of the first questions that arises is what will become ...