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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

eBay Subsidiary Marktplaats.nl Grows its Business with Sun's MySQL Database

Marktplaats.nl, the largest E-commerce platform in The Netherlands, and part of eBay since 2004, is growing its business on Sun Microsystems' MySQL Enterprise™ Unlimited database subscription offering. To enable their fast growth, protect site uptime, and contain IT expenses, the company is using a flexible and scalable infrastructure based on open source technology such as MySQL™ -– backed by Sun's 24x7 global database support team.
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Monday, June 30, 2008

New GlassFish & MySQL Offering to Provide Customers with Unlimited Deployments of Enterprise Class Application Server and Database Software

Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced the immediate availability of a new offering to help customers achieve greater return on investment (ROI) and significantly reduce the costs of deploying and managing database and application server software. Sun GlassFish and MySQL Unlimited enables companies of all sizes to deploy the software on unlimited servers across their entire organization for a flat annual subscription. For more details, visit http://www.sun.com/mysql/glassfish.

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Sun Microsystems Releases New Version of MySQL Cluster

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the general availability of MySQL™ Cluster Carrier Grade Edition 6.3, the latest version of its high-availability open source database, especially designed and certified for use in carrier grade telecom environments, such as Subscriber Data Management systems (HLR, HSS) and in Service Delivery Platforms. This new release enables Service Providers and Network Equipment Providers to deploy larger database applications and provide data availability across geographies in case of site-level failure. Additional MySQL Cluster 6.3 information and downloads are available now at www.mysql.com/cluster.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

First B2B Processes More Than Two Million Complex Transactions Using MySQL Enterprise

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that First B2B Ltd, one of the leading providers of business-to-business electronic trading, is now processing more than 2 million complex transactions a year with Sun's MySQL™ database software. With MySQL as the 'central plank' of its business, First B2B is able to support the trading transactions of more than 400 companies throughout the UK, and its entire operations are now based upon a MySQL Enterprise™ database subscription.

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

German State Nordrhein-Westfalen Leverages MySQL Enterprise Unlimited

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that the Nordrhein-Westfalen Data Centre for Finance Management (RZF) is relying on MySQL Enterprise™ to deliver its database applications. Following a very successful test period for its custom-built financial applications, RZF plans to deploy additional MySQL™-based database applications in the future.
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Monday, May 05, 2008

Sun Introduces MySQL Tech Support for Amazon EC2

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced two new offerings that will significantly expand customer choice by providing users with access to Sun's innovative open source software running on the Amazon Web Services platform. Sun has added premium technical support for its MySQL™ database running on Linux and on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to its global support and services offerings.

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Sun Introduces MySQL Workbench

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the availability of MySQL™ Workbench, a new visual database design tool that integrates data modeling, physical database design, database creation, change management and documentation capabilities into a single, seamless environment for MySQL developers and DBAs.

MySQL Workbench is available for download in two versions: an open source Community Edition and a (US) $99 commercial Standard Edition. Both are available now for Microsoft Windows, with future cross-platform support for Linux and Macintosh OS X under development.

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Sun Microsystems Announces MySQL 5.1

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the pending general availability of MySQL™ 5.1, a new version of the world's most popular open source database, designed to improve performance and simplify management of large database applications. A near-final release candidate of the GPL software is available for download now at dev.mysql.com/downloads/.

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Sun Celebrates Third-Party MySQL Storage Engines

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced new and enhanced third-party support for the MySQL™ database's unique pluggable storage engine architecture. The MySQL Certified Storage Engine Program (www.mysql.com/engines) enables commercial and community database engine developers to certify that their software has been tested and is compatible with Sun's MySQL Database Server – helping to assure MySQL users that these certified engines have reached high-level standards of usability, performance and integration.
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Monday, April 14, 2008

New Database Appliance from Kickfire Propels Sun's MySQL to Number One in Price-Performance

Kickfire™, Inc. and Sun Microsystems today announced Transaction Processing Performance Council – H (TPC-H) benchmark results that break previous price-performance records. The benchmarks were run on Kickfire's new database appliance, which is based on Sun's MySQL™ database. The Kickfire Database Appliance demonstrates the speed of high-performance commercial database systems at a fraction of the cost with an exceptionally small, low-power footprint and the hallmark ease-of-use of MySQL, the world's most popular open source database.

Kickfire is formally launching this week at the MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, California.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Sun & Zmanda to Deliver Backup & Recovery Solutions for MySQL Enterprise

Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Zmanda, the open source leader in backup and recovery software, today announced they are partnering to deliver a comprehensive, global data backup and recovery solution for MySQL Enterprise subscribers. A 30-day trial of Zmanda Recovery Manager Enterprise Edition -- the first open-source backup and recovery solution designed specifically for MySQL™ databases -- is available now at www.mysql.com/zrm. Starting April 1, MySQL Enterprise customers will be able to purchase ZRM for MySQL directly from Sun worldwide. Zmanda and Sun have also agreed to joint-selling and co-marketing activities in support of MySQL, the world's most popular open source database software.
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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Sun-MySQL Community Town Hall on March 4

Please join executives Jonathan Schwartz, Rich Green and Zack Urlocker for the first public event on the Sun-MySQL World Tour:

Sun and MySQL's Community Townhall

MySQL and Sun community members, employees, partners and customers are all invited to attend this casual virtual event -- and participate by asking their questions.

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Sun Microsystems Announces Completion of MySQL Acquisition

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has completed the acquisition of MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, for approximately $1 billion in total consideration. Sun also unveiled the immediate availability of MySQL's complete portfolio of products and enterprise services backed by its 17,000-strong global sales and services organization and its extensive international network of authorized distribution channels. Sun now provides a single, secure choice for customers and developers seeking to put MySQL into deployment on a global basis. Users can get started today with free downloads at dev.mysql.com/downloads.
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Friday, February 22, 2008

Visionary Keynote Speakers Announced for MySQL Conference & Expo 2008

The sixth annual MySQL Conference & Expo, co-presented by MySQL AB and O'Reilly Media, is expected to bring together 2,000 open source and database users from some of the most exciting and fastest-growing companies in the world, as well as from the large and active MySQL community. The conference will take place April 14-17, 2008, in Santa Clara, California.

MySQL AB CEO Marten Mickos and Jonathan Schwartz, president and CEO of Sun Microsystems, will kick off the conference with keynotes highlighting the strategic, technical and community synergies between the two companies and their pending merger. Tuesday's other keynote will be Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, who will speak about distributed computing in the modern Internet era.

To register and learn about early registration discounts, please visit www.mysqlconf.com.

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Friday, February 22, 2008

Yes Loans Processes 1.7 Million Loan Applications on MySQL

MySQL AB today announced that Yes Loans, the UK's number one provider of specialist unsecured loans, has now processed more than 1.7 million loan applications on top of the MySQL database. Yes Loans credits MySQL with supporting its phenomenal growth, and now operates its entire business on a MySQL Enterprise subscription.
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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Fronter Bases its New Platform on MySQL and other open source code

Fronter, a leading provider of online e-learning solutions, has chosen to base its new open platform on MySQL and other open source software products -- making it possible to satisfy customer demands for scalability and easy integration with other systems. This investment means a complete transition to platforms with open source code.

Fronter, headquartered in Norway, has enjoyed tremendous success with its learning platform for the education sector. Today, more than 3.8 million users in over 3,000 learning institutions in the UK, Europe and Nordic countries utilise the system to streamline both teaching and collaboration.

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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

KEWEGO Implements MySQL at the Heart of its Streaming Video Platform

KEWEGO, the European leader in Internet video distribution, has selected MySQL to power its video streaming solutions -– providing an obvious match between two key players in the growing Web 2.0 space.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Comsys Selects the MySQL Embedded Server for its Voice Over IP Solutions

MySQL AB today announced that Comsys, a specialist in interactive telephony solutions, has selected the MySQL Embedded Server to power its VOIP solutions. Comsys provides telecommunication products and hosted services in the converging arena of IN, 3G, SIP and VoIP networks for mobile and fixed line telephony operators, MVNOs and call centres. Comsys selected the MySQL open source platform in order to meet the very demanding availability requirements of the telecom space, and to deliver a high level of reliability combined with low operational costs.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

WYSdom Dental Technologies Embeds MySQL Database

MySQL AB today announced that UK-based WYSdom Dental Technologies has embedded the MYSQL database into its flagship practice management product, ICONic. The ICONic system provides a one-stop-shop solution to address the complex requirements that dental practitioners face with regards to client and back-end administration systems, as well as external communication with the Dental Practice Board.
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008

MySQL Launches New Authorized Partner Program for Managed Hosting Providers

MySQL AB today launched the MySQL Authorized Hosting Partner Program, a new partner offering specifically designed for top-tier hosting companies and Managed Hosting Providers (MHPs). MySQL Authorized Hosting Partners get access to MySQL Enterprise -- MySQL AB's premium, commercial-grade software and services -- to affordably deliver the high database availability and performance required by the growing number of online, on-demand, Web-hosted applications.

For more information on the program's benefits and service levels, please visit this page.

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