MySQL AB Completes Record Year.MySQL Enterprise MySQL Enterprise is a subscription-based service produced by MySQL AB and targeted toward the commercial market. MySQL AB's official support, training and certification focus on MySQL Enterprise. Launch a Key to Rapid Growth CUPERTINO, Calif. -- MySQL AB MySQL AB (founded 1995) is dual headquartered in Uppsala Sweden and Cupertino California USA. The company is the creator and owner of MySQL, a relational database management system. , developer of the world's most popular open source database, today reported another milestone in its 11-year history with record results for the year ended December 31, 2006. The privately-held company continued to deliver rapid revenue growth -- fuelled by the delivery of significant product, community and partner initiatives throughout the year. The recent launch of the new MySQL Enterprise subscription offering is especially drawing high praise among MySQL's customers for its innovative monitoring tools and low total cost of ownership (TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. ). [NOTE: MySQL AB's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Marten marten, name for carnivorous, largely arboreal mammals (genus Martes) of the weasel family, widely distributed in North America, Europe, and central Asia. Martens are larger, heavier-bodied animals than weasels, with thick fur and bushy tails. Mickos and CFO See Chief Financial Officer. Dennis Wolf Dennis Wolf (born October 30, 1978 in Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan) is an IFBB professional bodybuilder. To date, Dennis Wolf's most notable appearance was in the 2007 Mr. Olympia. He placed fifth in this competition. will be participating at the upcoming Thomas Weisel Partners Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TWPG), often shortened to just TWP or TWeisel, is a U.S. middle-market and growth focused investment banking firm based in San Francisco, California. Technology Conference on February 5 and the Credit Suisse The Credit Suisse Group (SWX:CSGN, NYSE: CS) is a financial services company, headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. It is the second-largest Swiss bank, behind UBS AG. Disruptive Technology Conference on February 9.] "Open source software adoption has come to an inflection point Inflection Point An event that changes the way we think and act. -Andy Grove, Founder of Intel. Notes: For example, the fall of the Berlin Wall was an inflection point in global politics and the commercialization of the Internet was an inflection point in technology. -- past the early-adopter 'techie' phase and now reaching mainstream corporate use," said Marten Mickos, MySQL AB's Chief Executive Officer. "We are readying our company and delivering products to take advantage of this market-change. We expect to see increasing interest in open source from CEOs and CFOs, as well as from industry partners such as Capgemini, Red Hat and Unisys." In the past year, MySQL added over 2,500 new customers, who have selected the MySQL database server to power their Web sites, critical business applications, packaged software and telecommunications infrastructure. Corporate, professional services and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers in the fourth quarter included: 1&1 Internet AG, Amp'd Mobile, Cisco, Clareity Security, Cybersource Corporation, Dow Jones, Garmin International, Earthlink, Electronic Arts, eSchool Solutions, Fotolog, Freescale, Hewlett Packard, Juniper Networks, MediaSpan, McClatchy Interactive, McGraw-Hill, NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. , NetShops, Nortel Networks, Reuters, The Sage Group, Siemens AG Power Generation, Sourcefire, Sprint, The Swedish National Financial Management Authority, Thales, Tripwire trip·wire n. 1. A wire stretched near ground level to trip or ensnare an enemy. 2. A wire or line that activates a weapon, trap, or camera, for example, when pulled. 3. , The Walt Disney Company, and Zappos.com. MySQL 2006 Highlights Record growth in enterprise subscription business -- In the fourth quarter, the company launched its new MySQL Enterprise offering, a comprehensive set of production-tested software, proactive monitoring tools, and premium support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services . MySQL is continuing to change the way enterprise software is sold by today introducing customer-friendly annual site agreements at the unprecedented low cost of $40,000 [see separate press release on MySQL Enterprise Unlimited]. MySQL powers Web 2.0 users such as YouTube and Flickr -- Time Magazine selecting "You" as Person of The Year and Google's billion-dollar acquisition of YouTube has highlighted Web 2.0 as an industry- and societal-revolution. Almost all of these fast-growing interactive Web properties have selected the open source LAMP stack as their scalable software architecture -- and MySQL as their database. Alexa Top 100 examples include Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Flickr, Second Life, Wikipedia, Craigslist, Slashdot, Blogger.com, Facebook, LiveJournal, Digg, Del.icio.us, Pricegrabber.com and Weather.com. New pluggable storage engines -- In April, the company launched its MySQL Certified Storage Engine Program, a way for third-party ISVs and open source community developers to produce high-quality add-in database engines for the millions of MySQL database users worldwide. Since that time, a wide range of engines have been unveiled through the program (http://www.mysql.com/engines). In December, MySQL released an alpha version of a new internally-developed transactional storage engine, codenamed 'Falcon'. Adoption of high-availability database technology -- The company has also seen great interest and successful customer implementations with its MySQL Cluster high-availability database product -- especially within the Telecom (Alcatel Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, HP OpenCall, Motorola, Nokia, Nortel Networks) and E-commerce/Web (Clareity, CyberSource, neckerman.de, Toto Lotto) markets. In 2007, MySQL will be creating a separate Telecom business unit to focus on and grow this opportunity. Strength of MySQL Community -- The open source ecosystem of software developers and vendors who support and contribute to MySQL's popularity continues to grow, as seen by: * Visitors to the MySQL Web site have propelled it into the Alexa Top 500 * Record attendance at the annual MySQL Conference (www.mysqlconf.com) * Contributions on MySQL Forge (forge.mysql.com) and PlanetMySQL.org blogs * Over 12 million downloads of the MySQL Server in 2006, making it one of the most popular software applications on the Internet. Dennis Wolf, Chief Financial Officer of MySQL AB, said, "Fiscal 2006 was a great year for MySQL. We continued to post strong growth and have built an infrastructure that is now very scalable. We enter 2007 confident that our products and our talent will help the company achieve its aggressive goals." About MySQL MySQL AB develops and supports a family of high-performance, affordable database products. The company's flagship offering is 'MySQL Enterprise', a comprehensive set of production-tested software, proactive monitoring tools, and premium support services. MySQL is the world's most popular open source database software, with over 10 million active installations. Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, business-critical systems and packaged software -- including industry leaders such as Yahoo!, Alcatel, The Associated Press, Suzuki and NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. . With headquarters in the United States and Sweden -- and operations around the world -- MySQL AB supports both open source values and corporate customers' needs in a profitable, sustainable business model. For more information about MySQL, please visit www.mysql.com. MySQL is a registered trademark of MySQL AB in the United States and other countries. Other product names may be trademarks of their respective companies. |
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