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

But McManus, who led a session at last month's conference on .NET development for the open source database platform, believes that MySQL is a viable platform for .NET developers. It's very mature ...

While the database management tool for Visual Studio is going to be a wonderful addition, down the road it would be nice to see other plug-ins come out of the MySQL camp. Ultimately, I'd like to ...