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MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, will be exhibiting at next week's Oracle OpenWorld event, November 12-15 in San Francisco; Moscone South Hall, kiosk booth PSP32.

MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, today announced that ScienceLogic, one of the fastest-growing network management companies, relies on the MySQL Embedded Database Server for the demanding data processing and storage needs of its EM7 Meta-Appliances.

My SQL has laid out its software road map through 2009, including some code contributed by Google and security improvements that are due in MySQL 7.0.

MySQL AB, the developer of the world's most popular open source database, today announced that the Swedish National Police are implementing an enterprise-wide project for building all future IT systems on an open source software (OSS) infrastructure based upon Linux, MySQL and JBoss. Several existing systems are currently being migrated and all future projects will be developed on this OSS foundation.

MySQL has defended a decision to end free community access to the latest source code for its popular database in an attempt to snag paying customers.

Deja vu. Remember 2002? That's when Red Hat decided to split its code into Red Hat Advanced Server (now Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and Fedora. Howls of protest and endless hand-wringing ensued: How dare Red Hat not give everything away for free?

"For the past few months I have been providing “Red Hat”-style RPMs of the newest MySQL versions, including the Enterprise-only releases. Unfortunately it looks like that practice is going to come to an end. The developers of MySQL have decided to change the release policy of the Community version and the availability policy of the Enterprise sources."

MySQL AB announced that McGraw Hill Education, a leading global provider of educational materials, information and solutions, has chosen the MySQL database to power the network version of its widely-used "Breakthrough to Literacy" learning program.

The IPO plan of Swedish software company MySQL is eagerly awaited by fund managers, who want more benchmarks to gauge open source's value.

MySQL AB will hold its first ever MySQL users conference in Asia. We cordially present the MySQL Users Conference Japan 2007, coming to you this September.

MySQL AB announced the results of recent DBT2 benchmarks of its MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition database. The announcement was made at the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo. Tests were conducted in collaboration with Intel Corporation and Dolphin Interconnect Solutions.

MySQL, purveyor of the open-source database of the same name, is on the road to becoming a publicly traded company, bolstered by $50 million in revenue in 2006.

MySQL AB’s CEO Marten Mickos kicked off the opening day of the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo this morning with a keynote exploring the phenomenal momentum of open source software as both a disruptive force on the traditional enterprise software industry and a positive communal movement among individual software developers.

"Robin Schumacher recently gave us an excellent rundown on sessions at the upcoming MySQL Conference and Expo (April 23-26th in Santa Clara) for DBAs. As a proud developer I wanted to make sure that our enormous developer community had a similar guide. Now, developers will encounter the same problem that Robin pointed out: with so many excellent sessions, you'll be required to make some difficult choices sometimes in what sessions you attend. This guide will hopefully allow you to navigate the waters. I've broken the guide down into a general section and also into programming language specific sections."

MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, today announced an expanded partnership with Carahsoft Technology Corp., a leading government information technology provider, to accelerate the adoption of the MySQL database among U.S. federal government agencies. Carahsoft is now MySQL AB's Master GSA partner and distributor to the federal public sector channel. MySQL government customers and resellers now have convenient, one-stop access to official MySQL information and training through Carahsoft.