As Microsoft woos open source folks to embrace SQL Server, Oracle is hitting back by enticing Windows developers to MySQL.

The first plug-in to come out of the MySQL AB camp for Visual Studio will afford developers the ability to easily manage and create MySQL databases, stored procedures, views, UDFs, and tables. As ...

With Oracle acquiring Sun Microsystems, it also acquires MySQL, the poster child for open-source applications. (Not to mention Solaris, which Sun says is a larger Linux distribution than Red Hat.