Oracle also recently acquired a small Finnish company called InnoDB which supplies a storage engine to the MySQL open-source database. Officials from Oracle, Sleepycat, and Zend did not respond ...

Start-up SourceLabs announced a partnership on Thursday with Oracle to stress-test popular open-source infrastructure software components on Oracle's Java application server.

Paula says open source executives are suspicious, and the unscientific poll I did here confirms it. Oracle has an open source crediblity gap. (Harry Shearer and Michael McKean, right, with David ...

While open-source databases are finding their way into large organizations, it's really their hold on tomorrow's Fortune 500 companies that should be of most concern to Oracle.

Oracle said on Tuesday that it acquired open-source database company Sleepycat Software for an undisclosed sum. The database giant said Sleepycat's open-source Berkeley DB database will complement ...

Closed source databases like Oracle, Microsoft SQL, and IBM DB2 are still enormously popular, according to DB-Engines, but the fastest growing databases are all open source.

Oracle, a company not exactly known for having the best relationship with the open source community, is releasing a new open source tool today called Graphpipe, which is designed to simplify and ...

Much of the software we use today is built on re-implemented APIs, like the Java API in question in Oracle v. Google. An Oracle victory would have stopped open-source innovation in its tracks.