Tag archive: MySQL

If you want access to a government website, you don't need to be a computer savvy spy. You just need enough cash to pay a hacker to do the technical heavy lifting for you. According to the data security firm Imperva, one such hacker is now selling access to government, military, and education websites around the world — and for relatively little money. Access to European and U.S. websites is being sold for prices ranging from $55 to… Read More

Oracle has announced that it has completed its takeover of Sun Microsystems, concluding a deal values at over $7 billion and which wound slowly through the processes of antitrust regulators in both the United States and the European Union. The deal makes the world's largest maker of database software into a hardware company which will manufacture servers, storage solutions, and other high-end hardware, as well as take over Sun's… Read More

Although Digital Trends doesn't normally cover news in enterprise computing, a recent development bears some mention: Sun Microsystems has announced it plans to aquire open source database developer MySQL AB for about $1 billion. MySQL is very likely the most widely-deployed open source database in the world, with more than 100 million copies downloaded, with another 500,000 copies distributed every day. MySQL powers both everyday Web… Read More