Starting next month, the two companies plan to offer Intel-based systems running MySQL's open-source database and the Linux operating system preconfigured and ready to roll. The move marks MySQL's ...

We have been having an internal debate, not really so much a heated fists to face kind of debate, but more discussions, around the merits or performance impacts of running mySQL databases across NFS.

Oracle is the sole proprietor of MySQL, but its community has critiqued its governance. Without improvements, the DBMS risks irrelevance.