MySQL News Announcements (2005)

Registration Opens for 2006 MySQL Users Conference

26 December 2005 — The virtual doors have opened for registration for the 2006 MySQL Users Conference. This annual event is an unmatched opportunity for database developers, DBAs, users, and vendors to gather together and share the latest information on MySQL and open source technology. The theme for the 2006 conference is Discover. Connect. Succeed. Scale Your Business with MySQL. The conference brings over 1,000 MySQL and open source enthusiasts to Santa Clara, California during April 24-27.

MySQL and Business Objects Expand Partnership

12 December 2005 — MySQL and Business Objects today announced the signing of a new OEM referral agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will jointly sell integrated solutions that combine the MySQL Network database subscription service with business intelligence software from Business Objects. The new solutions offer customers a cost-effective way to deploy an integrated business intelligence and database solution, at a fraction of the cost associated with traditional, proprietary databases.

Alcatel Selects MySQL Cluster for its Next-Generation Telecom Network Products

5 December 2005 — MySQL AB has been selected as a technology partner for development of Alcatel's future carrier-grade multimedia communication products. Under the agreement, Alcatel will use the high-availability MySQL Cluster database as the repository for key subscriber information, which has to be available in real time whenever a phone call is made or any network service is accessed.

MySQL 5.0 Downloaded One Million Times in First Three Weeks

14 November 2005 — MySQL AB today reported record interest in the newest version of its popular open source database. MySQL 5.0 has already been downloaded over one million times since its introduction on October 24.

MySQL 5.0 Now Available for Production Use

24 October 2005 — MySQL AB today announced the general availability of MySQL 5.0, the most significant product upgrade in the company's ten-year history. The major new version delivers advanced SQL standard-compliant features such as stored procedures, triggers, views & new pluggable storage engines. Over 30 enterprise platform and tool vendors have also expressed enthusiastic support for the new release of the world's most popular open source database.

MySQL AB Welcomes Oracle's Endorsement of Open Source Database Technology

8 October 2005 — Uppsala, Sweden & Cupertino, Calif. -- MySQL AB, the developer of the world's most popular open source database, today welcomes Oracle's endorsement of open source database technology with its announced acquisition of Innobase Oy, the developers of the open source InnoDB Storage Engine.

Agresso Announces Strategic Support for MySQL

5 October 2005 — Agresso R&D AS today announced a long-term strategic commitment to support MySQL, the world's most popular open source database. With this announcement, Agresso is building upon its strategy to provide choice to its customers in how to run their IT strategy by cost-effectively supporting their business management systems.

Kaj Arnö Appointed MySQL VP of Community Relations

3 October 2005 — MySQL AB has promoted Kaj Arnö to the position of vice president in charge of the company's open source community relations group. He is responsible for communicating and evangelizing MySQL within the software development community -- as well as representing the community's interests to MySQL's senior management team.

MySQL 5.0 Release Candidate Available. Win an iPod nano!

26 September 2005 — Read about the most significant new product in MySQL's history -- in a letter to the community from Kaj Arnö, the company's vice president of Community Relations.

MySQL Users Conference 2006 - Call for Participation

21 September 2005 — Discover. Connect. Succeed. Scale Your Business with MySQL. April 24-27, 2006 — Santa Clara, California The Call for Participation is now open, and you're invited to submit a proposal to speak at the Conference. Share your knowledge and experience employing MySQL in the real world. Proposal Deadline: November 7, 2005

Dennis Wolf Joins MySQL AB as Chief Financial Officer

14 September 2005 — MySQL AB today announced the appointment of industry-veteran Dennis P. Wolf as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Based in the company's Silicon Valley headquarters and reporting to CEO Marten Mickos, Wolf is responsible for MySQL's worldwide finance, internal IT, accounting, HR, legal, and administrative operations.

Novell to Offer MySQL Network

9 August 2005 — Novell and MySQL AB today announced an agreement to deliver enhanced, combined support for key components of the popular open source LAMP infrastructure stack. Under the reseller and joint-support agreement, the only accord of its kind between a Linux vendor and MySQL AB, Novell will now offer subscriptions to the MySQL Network commercial database service directly to its customers.

Dell to Offer MySQL Network

8 August 2005 — Available to Dell customers are new support offerings for key elements of the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl) stack. MySQL Network subscriptions are now available direct from Dell. Customers can now turn to Dell for an end-to-end LAMP solution stack comprised of PowerEdge servers, Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating systems, MySQL database application, MySQL Network, JBoss application server software and JBoss Network. More information on maximizing data availability with MySQL applications on Dell PowerEdge servers is available at www.dell.com/mysql.

An Open Letter to the Community from MySQL Founders David Axmark & Michael "Monty" Widenius

2 August 2005 — To our fellow developers & users of Free & Open Source Software: This year, we are celebrating ten years of MySQL: the database, the company and the community. It's been hard (and interesting!) work for us -- but looking back, we should celebrate how far we've come. We created the best software we could for you, and you turned it into the most popular database of its kind. We want to thank you for this.

MySQL AB Continues Strong Growth: Best Quarter to Date

20 July 2005 — Due in large part to the success of its new "MySQL Network" commercial subscription offering, the company announced that it has just completed the best quarter (April-June) in its ten-year history. The privately-held company generated more than twice the revenue than the same period last year. MySQL AB's strong second-quarter growth was driven by key deals from customers such as Alcatel, Bloomberg, BusinessObjects, Cendant, Cisco, Fujitsu, McClatchy, Micromuse, Scholastic, Sourcefire, Vonage, Wachovia and WebTrends.

MySQL AB Celebrates European Parliament's Decision Against Software Patents

7 July 2005 — As Europe's largest open source software company, MySQL AB today acknowledged a major victory for the software development community after the EU Parliament overwhelmingly rejected legislation that would have allowed patents on software. The final vote was 648-32. Founded in Sweden ten years ago, MySQL AB and its founders, Michael "Monty" Widenius and David Axmark, took an early leadership position among European technology vendors in the high-profile debate against software patents. The company also helped sponsor the successful nosoftwarepatents.com campaign."

MySQL Releases Open Source Database Tools for Macintosh OS X

7 June 2005 — At the Apple World-Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco today, MySQL announced a new pair of visual database tools for the Macintosh OS X platform. Designed to make life easier for MySQL database developers, DBAs and users -- new beta versions of the MySQL Query Browser and MySQL Administrator tools for Mac OS X are now freely available from the company's Web site under the GPL open source license.

MySQL AB Appoints Richard Mason Vice President of EMEA

24 May 2005 — MySQL AB has named Richard Mason to the newly-created position of vice president of Sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The experienced UK-based sales executive will help spread European adoption of MySQL 5.0, the new enterprise version of the popular open source database.

MySQL AB Launches Worldwide Tour of MySQL 5.0 Training Workshops

24 May 2005 — The company today announced a series of two-day training workshops designed to introduce developers and DBAs to the new enterprise features and capabilities of the company's forthcoming MySQL 5.0 product. The upcoming workshops will be held in San Francisco, Washington DC, Toronto, Munich, London and Paris.

MaxDB 7.6 production version released!

23 May 2005 — The new version 7.6 of MaxDB by MySQL has been released! This release is a production version, which means it is decleared stable and free of any critical bugs.

MySQL AB Partners with Cybozu Inc.

27 April 2005 — Japan's Cybozu Inc. today formally announced the formation of a partnership with MySQL AB around the popular MySQL open source database. Cybozu and MySQL AB will cooperate in promotional activities to expand their share in each other's market.

MySQL Announces Application and Partner of the Year Award Winners

20 April 2005 — In his morning Keynote presentation at the MySQL Users Conference, company CEO Marten Mickos announced the winners of the 2005 Application of the Year and Partner of the Year awards.

MySQL & Red Hat to Offer Optimized 'Scale-Out' Solutions for Enterprise Customers

20 April 2005 — In keynotes at this week's MySQL User Conference, senior executives from the two open source vendors pledged to work together to provide their common customers with better products and services for implementing high-demand database applications using an increasingly popular, more affordable and effective IT architecture called "Scale-out".

MySQL AB Introduces New Database Migration Tool & Consulting Package Based on Proven 'MIG 4' Methodology

19 April 2005 — MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, today introduced a new visual tool and special discounts on the company's migration consulting package - both leveraging the company's proven four-phase 'MIG 4' database migration methodology - and designed to help users implement affordable database solutions with MySQL by maximizing existing data, skills and applications.

Growing Industry Support for MySQL Network Demonstrated at the MySQL Users Conference 2005

19 April 2005 — MySQL AB today announced that industry support for the world's most popular open source database and the company's new subscription service, MySQL Network, continues to grow - as demonstrated by the many MySQL-related product and partnership announcements made by leading companies at the MySQL Users Conference this week.

MySQL and Business Objects Announce Partnership

18 April 2005 — MySQL AB and Business Objects today announced a business and technology partnership covering MySQL's popular open source database and BusinessObjects XI, the new version of the world's leading business intelligence platform. Under the agreement, Business Objects will embed MySQL database technology into BusinessObjects XI for use on the Linux and UNIX platforms, and will add MySQL to the list of databases supported by Crystal Reports and BusinessObjects Data Integrator. In addition, both companies will also join each others' alliance and partner programs.

MySQL to Celebrate its 10th Anniversary at the MySQL Users Conference, April 18-21 in Santa Clara

4 April 2005 — MySQL to Celebrate its 10th Anniversary at the MySQL Users Conference, April 18-21 in Santa Clara Nominations Being Accepted Now for MySQL "Application of the Year" Awards CUPERTINO, Calif. - April 4, 2005 - MySQL AB will mark the 10-year anniversary of the world's most popular open source database at the upcoming 2005 MySQL Users Conference, April 18-21 in Santa Clara, California. Co-presented with O'Reilly Media, Inc., this year's event will feature record-high numbers of attendees, exhibitors, industry keynotes, sessions and tutorials. A complete program schedule and registration information is available at http://mysqluc.com/.

Free Standards Group Announces Broad ISV Support For Linux Standard Base

21 March 2005 — MySQL AB has joined a growing number of ISVs in supporting the Free Standards Group (FSG) and its Linux Standard Base (LSB). According to the FSG, the LSB helps software vendors target the Linux platform in a cost effective, low risk manner. It also helps ISVs funnel their input to the Linux distribution industry, creating a more stable and robust process for both Linux distributors and Linux ISVs.

MySQL Launches ‘MySQL Network' for Corporate Enterprises Looking to Fast-Track Open Source Database Deployment

15 February 2005 — Boston, LinuxWorld Conference & Expo — MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, today launched a new way for corporate enterprises to acquire, deploy and support MySQL for their business-critical applications. The new ‘MySQL Network' offering is specifically designed for large IT departments looking to leverage the cost and performance benefits of MySQL - while addressing key business requirements for implementing open source software.

Enterprise Software & Hardware Vendors Rally around MySQL Network Certification

15 February 2005 — Boston, LinuxWorld Conference & Expo — MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, today launched a new certified partner program to ensure that leading third-party solutions will work seamlessly with the software and support offerings provided by the new MySQL Network enterprise database subscription service, also announced today.

New MaxDB 7.6 beta released

14 February 2005 — The new version 7.6 of MaxDB by MySQL has been released! This release is a beta version, preparing for the production version release, which will take place in Q2 2005.

MySQL AB Joins TSANet

14 February 2005 — TSANet (Technical Support Alliance Network), the industry's largest vendor-neutral support alliance, today announced that MySQL AB has joined its ranks as a member.

Novell and MySQL coming to a city near you Feb 22 - Mar 03

11 February 2005 — 23-city tour offers unique in-person learning opportunity about MySQL and Novell's Open Source strategy

Google, HP, Novell, and Red Hat Execs to Keynote the 2005 MySQL Users Conference

4 February 2005 — Sebastopol, CA — The program for the third annual MySQL Users Conference continues to expand — providing IT professionals, programmers, DBAs, and other users a more comprehensive look into the solutions and opportunities offered by the world's most popular open source database. The MySQL Users Conference will be held in Santa Clara, California, April 18-21, 2005.

MaxDB now available for Linux on PowerPC (64-bit)

2 February 2005 — MaxDB has now been made available for Linux on PowerPC 64-bit platforms. The new platform brings good benefits to customers who want to run SAP or other applications on MaxDB in a Linux environment.

MySQL Appoints Mark Burton Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales

27 January 2005 — CUPERTINO, Calif. - MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, today announced that Mark Burton has joined the company's management team as executive vice president of worldwide sales. Responsible for growing and managing MySQL AB's entire international corporate sales force, he reports directly to CEO Marten Mickos and will be based in the company's North American headquarters in Silicon Valley.

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