According to Zaitsev, the origins of the attitudes to Oracle lie in the historical relationship between MySQL and the software giant. "I worked on MySQL and obviously Oracle was the arch enemy for us.

But even as it extolled Windows as an ideal platform for MySQL, and identified plans to increase integration between the two, Oracle also simultaneously took aim at Microsoft's SQL Server and ...

Clients of MySQL, who wished not to be quoted due to the sensitivity of the matter, told Reuters they have been switching between Oracle and MySQL databases for their different applications ...