MySQL's Workbench licensing decision really isn't much of a question of proprietary versus open source. It's about speed of development.

If you plan to do database development with Java and MySQL, the first thing you’ll need to do is configure a database schema. Technically speaking, the first thing to do before you configure a schema ...

MySQL, one of the world's most successful open-source companies, has released the Standard Edition of its new MySQL Workbench product under a proprietary license. The company gives several reasons ...