Partner Press Releases (2003)

Radiant Data Delivers Continuous Data Availability for Linux-Based MySQL Databases

12. August 2003 — Radiant Data Corporation today announced that it has partnered with MySQL AB, the developer of the world’s most popular open source database, through the MySQL Partner Program. The Radiant Data for Linux platform now provides local and remote data replication capabilities to MySQL database applications among any number of locations. Running MySQL in association with Radiant Data for Linux ensures continuous data availability on a global basis.

Pogo Linux and MySQL AB Launch First MySQL Database Appliance

5. August 2003 — Pogo Linux Inc., a Linux hardware vendor, and MySQL AB, developer of the world’s most popular open source database, today launched the first MySQL® database appliance, the DataWare 2600 Server. The DataWare 2600 is a pre-configured, fully integrated hardware/software offering optimized for speed and value. The jointly developed database appliance is a turnkey solution that combines the Linux systems expertise of Pogo Linux with the cost savings, reliability and performance of MySQL’s open source database. Pogo Linux, the first “MySQL Certified Hardware Partner,” will demonstrate the DataWare 2600 at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, August 5-7, in booth #1259.

Securities America Selects Emic Application Cluster For Enhanced Reliability and Scalability

4. August 2003 — Emic Networks today announced a new partnership with Securities America, Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, Emic Networks provides Securities America with Emic Application Cluster (EAC) products for Apache and MySQL? servers. EAC application-clustering products are designed to provide best price/performance Lintel (Linux/Intel) -based cluster platform for horizontal scaling of web applications. EAC scales economically from small and medium size environments to high-end server platform environments. EAC's benefits include performance scalability and load balancing, fault tolerance and continuous availability, and centralized management.

MySQL and SGI Partner to Deliver High Performance Database Computing with MySQL on the SGI Altix 3000 Supercluster

30. July 2003 — MySQL AB, developer of the world’s most popular open source database, today announced a strategic alliance with SGI, a world leader in high-performance computing, to provide the MySQL® database on the SGI Altix 3000 family of servers and superclusters. MySQL AB and SGI are cooperating on engineering optimization, marketing and sales for the Intel Itanium 2-based Altix 3000 supercluster running MySQL on Linux to power heavy-load, high-performance database applications.

Blue World ships FileMakerPro to MySQL Kit

16. May 2003 — Blue World Communications, Inc. - pioneers of the Web Data Engine™ - today shipped the FMP2MySQL Kit. The free kit includes tools and tutorials for converting FileMaker Pro solutions to MySQL. The kit is designed to make it extremely easy for novice users to migrate Web-bound FileMaker Pro solutions to MySQL.

Blue World ships Lasso Reporter

25. April 2003 — Blue World Communications, Inc. - pioneers of the Web Data Engine™ - today shipped Lasso Reporter 6, a new tool for quickly creating robust reports from data contained within MySQL databases. Lasso Reporter is a LassoApp which can be freely used on servers running Lasso Professional 6, Blue World's leading Web application server for creative professionals.

Arkeia Releases MySQL Plug-In For Intel Itanium 2 Platform

10. April 2003 — Arkeia, an international leader in enterprise backup software, has introduced a new plug-in to complement the recently released MySQL™ database for the 64-bit Intel Itanium 2 processor running the Linux operating system. The plug-in works with Arkeia s new v5.1 software for backup/recovery of heterogeneous networks.

Can an Open-Source Database Threaten Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM?

12. March 2003 — MySQL still lacks many features big customers want, but the software maker and CEO Marten Mickos have dazzling opportunities ahead.

Arkeia Expands Product Line to Include Mac OS X Backup Support

18. February 2003 — Arkeia Corporation today announced that its Arkeia v5 network backup solution now supports Mac OS X operating systems and offers a plug-in to safeguard Mac MySQL databases.