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The clock's ticking for MySQL 8.0 as end of life looms

Percona says more than half of installs remain on version set to lose support in 2026 Users have six months to migrate from ...
ZDNet

MySQL shies away from GPLv3, free version

Peter Zaitsev reported recently that new versions of MySQL Community edition are no longer available for download from the MySQL Download Area. This provoked a storm of speculation that MySQL was ...
InfoWorld

Experts: Oracle and MySQL do not create a database monopoly

Oracle Corp.’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. will bring together the world’s most valuable relational database with the most popular open source one: MySQL. Oracle reaped $22 ...
Network World

Should you ever use MySQL when Postgres is a superior DBMS?

Let’s start by reviewing some of the leading knocks against MySQL: MySQL 4 and any version of MySQL over the MyISAM storage engine are missing some basic SQL standard transactional capability. They ...