1 week ago - MySQL is free and open-source software under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and is also available under a variety of proprietary licenses. MySQL was owned and sponsored by the Swedish company MySQL AB, which was bought by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle Corporation).

Oracle has access to all the customers who use MySQL. It gives an opportunity to reach them and try up selling Oracle. Even if there is a 5% conversion, it’s worth it. ... Oracle bought MySQL mainly to control a major open-source database that could compete with its own products, influence the market, and protect its enterprise database business.

Oracle drives MySQL innovation, delivering new capabilities to power next generation web, cloud, mobile and embedded applications.

3 days ago - By 2001, MySQL had reached more than 2 million active installations; by 2004, the software was being downloaded more than 30,000 times a day. MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 and, when Oracle acquired Sun in 2009, it also took ownership of MySQL.

January 27, 2017 - It was released under the name ... Proprietary License. MySQL was owned by MySQL AB firm until it went into the hands of Oracle Corporation....

December 22, 2025 - MySQL AB was a Swedish software company founded in 1995. It was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008, Sun was in turn acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2010. MySQL AB is the creator of MySQL, a relational database management system, as well as related products such as MySQL Cluster.

February 27, 2026 - MySQL, open-source relational database management software, owned by the computer software company Oracle, that allows users to interact with large amounts of data across multiple databases.

August 12, 2025 - Furthermore, the GNU General Public Licence Preamble states that they’re committed to openness. Yes. Oracle owns MySQL. In 2008, Sun Microsystems purchased MySQL for $1 billion. Two years later, Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion.

November 24, 2025 - It's also worth noting that MySQL ... virtually every Drupal and WordPress site. Engineering is led by Tomas Ulin who joined MySQL AB back in 2003....

August 26, 2021 - In my last MySQL article, I briefly mentioned that MySQL is owned by Oracle. But that got me thinking, why not compare MySQL and Oracle SQL? They’re both owned by the same company, and yet they both…

January 1, 2012 - Its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems brought MySQL into the Oracle fold. The ownership of the dominant open source relational database engine by a company whose flagship product is a proprietary database technology has caused some concern in the library world.

June 10, 2024 - Some 15 years ago, when Oracle acquired Sun, and hence MySQL, there was a lot of talk on the internet over when Oracle was going to “Kill MySQL”. Multiple theories were circled around, ranging from killing MySQL altogether, so there is less competition to proprietary Oracle, or just killing it as an open source project, leaving “MySQL Enterprise” as the only option.

October 22, 2025 - AMP-stack component – MySQL is ... bundles are used to run dynamic Web sites or servers. It supports php, perl, c, c++, java etc. ... Original owner: MySQL AB – former software company that was founded in 1995....

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September 14, 2021 - Later on Oracle, a US tech giant acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010, and MySQL is today owned by Oracle.

April 7, 2022 - MySQL is a relational database launched in 1995 by Swedish Uppsala-based company MySQL AB, which was subsequently acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008. In 2010, the company became part of Oracle when it acquired Sun Microsystems. It was named MySQL because ‘My’ was the name of the co-founder's ...

March 8, 2010 - It's also worth noting that MySQL is still going strong 8 years after the acquisition by Sun. MySQL is still used by Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia and virtually every Drupal and WordPress site. Engineering is led by Tomas Ulin who joined MySQL AB back in 2003.

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November 18, 2024 - In 2000, MySQL became open source software under the GNU General Public License (GPL). MySQL AB owned the copyright and trademark for the database server, coordinating development and support for MySQL.