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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). [8]
MySQL AB was a Swedish software company founded in 1995. It was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008, [1] 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.
This is a listing of Oracle Corporation's corporate acquisitions, including acquisitions of both companies and individual products. Oracle's version [1] does not include value of the acquisition. [2] See also Category:Sun Microsystems acquisitions (Sun was acquired by Oracle).
The acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation was completed on January 27, 2010. [1] After the acquisition was completed, Oracle, only a software vendor prior to the merger, owned Sun's hardware product lines, such as SPARC Enterprise, as well as Sun's software product lines, including the Java programming language.
Oracle acquired Innobase, supplier of the InnoDB codebase to MySQL, in part to compete better against open source alternatives, and acquired Sun Microsystems, owner of MySQL, in 2010. Database products licensed as open-source are, by the legal terms of the Open Source Definition , free to distribute and free of royalty or other licensing fees.
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas. [5] Co-founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison, who remains executive chairman, Oracle ranked as the third-largest software company in the world by revenue and market capitalization as of 2020, [6] and the company's seat in Forbes Global 2000 was 80 in 2023.
MariaDB is a community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License.
It was developed by MySQL AB, and enables users to graphically administer MySQL databases and visually design database structures. Adminer – free MySQL front end capable of managing multiple databases, with many CSS skins available. It is a light-weight alternative to phpMyAdmin, distributed under the Apache license (or GPL v2) as a single ...