OpenSolaris may be having a hard time at Oracle, but months after Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Java and MySQL are still viewed positively by users. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years ...

Sun has sent shockwaves through the open-source software community today by acquiring open-source database company MySQL AB. The MySQL database is regarded as one of the core components of open source ...

While most of the fixes for Java, Database, and MySQL are run-of-the-mill, four are rated critical if the targeted user has administrator privileges Oracle issued a gargantuan quarterly patch update ...

Although Oracle has generally received good marks for its stewardship of MySQL and Java since acquiring Sun Microsystems, criticism in the open source community of the company’s handling of the ...

No doubt partly in response to all this, SAP CTO Vishal Sikka put up a blog post covering what I assume is the same ground covered in SAP’s letter to Oracle. The opening paragraphs hit points that I ...