IBM plans to start selling products from smaller rival MySQL, a developer of an open-source database that is used to help run Web sites, including Yahoo, Google and YouTube.
Executives at IBM, the world’s No. 2 software maker, and MySQL told Reuters they will announce a technology and marketing partnership on Wednesday at a MySQL users’ conference in Santa Clara, California. MySQL is a privately held company that develops standardized versions of the open-source MySQL database. It makes money by selling service agreements that cover upgrades, technical support and maintenance of those programs.
Developers have embraced MySQL because its code is open source. That makes it relatively easy to write programs that work with the database.
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