So if Oracle were to rein in MySQL, the software's community of developers and users could always create and promote an alternative.

所以如果甲骨文成功接管，软件社区里的开发人员和用户依然可以开发、推广新型可替代产品。

youdao

Database systems, such as Oracle and MySQL, manage their own user accounts, roles, and privileges for system and object-level operations.

诸如oracle和MySQL等数据库系统管理它们自己的用户帐户、角色和系统及对象级别的操作权限。

youdao

You can provide an interface within Base that connects to a MySQL or Oracle database without creating a custom application.

您可以在 Base 中提供一个连接到 MySQL 或 Oracle 数据库的接口，而不需要创建自定义应用程序。

youdao

Oracle is countering MySQL, Ingres and the like with its own low-cost programs and even a few free apps.

FORBES: The New Barbarians

Just as cheap personal computers undermined the mainframe business in the 1980s and open-source programs like Linux and Mysql are challenging Microsoft and Oracle today, outfits like Fastcase are attacking Wexis' stranglehold on legal research from the bottom up.

FORBES: Magazine Article

DaimlerChrysler, Siemens and UPS use MySQL, spending (so says MySQL) one-tenth of what they would have spent on the Oracle alternative.

FORBES: Magazine Article