Many a successful startup owes its creation to a wild gamble that paid off. Think about Andy Bechtolsheim’s $100,000 bet on Google, a promising search company that didn’t even have a bank account yet.

Open-source software has reshaped many IT disciplines, and the world of database administration (DBA) is no exception. The open-source community, and the software it has produced, has evolved into a ...

Over the past decade, open-source software has become a transformative force for data science and AI development, collaboration, and innovation. Among its benefits are transparency, cost-effectiveness ...

Oracle has acquired open-source database vendor Sleepycat Software, strengthening its hand in the embedded database market and putting to rest at least one of the rumors about its plans to buy ...