MySQL AB is pleased to announce that our representatives are meeting with customers and partner candidates during the week of Feb 18 in 4 cities in India. The previous Road Show was held in Nov 2007. We are happy to report that many people have joined us and the seminars in 3 cities were very successful. This time, we are back to conduct more informative sessions in more cities!

Users, Customers and Resellers interested in MySQL products are encouraged to attend. Exclusive seminars and networking events where you can explore the benefits of MySQL Enterprise are now available. Admission fee is free if pre-registered.

Topics covered

• Introduction to MySQL in APAC Strategy/Status
• MySQL Dual Licensing Explanation
• Partner Introduction
• MySQL Roadmap
• State of MySQL community
• Introduction to MySQL Enterprise
• MySQL Enterprise Demo
• MySQL HA solutions
• Deep Technical Q&A with David Axmark
• Networking

Schedule

Chennai
Date: Monday, February 18, 2008
Time: 13:30-16:30 (Seating begins at 13:00)
Admission fee: Free, if pre-registered.
Venue: Madras I at Le Royal Meridien Chennai
1 GST Road, St. Thomas Mount, Chennai 600 016
Tel : +91 44 2231 4343

Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL, Developer of the World's
Most Popular Open Source Database.

Sun Growth Strategy Accelerates With New Position in $15 Billion Database Market
SANTA CLARA, CA January 16, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world's fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun's position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market. Today's announcement reaffirms Sun's position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor.

MySQL AB is pleased to announce that our representatives are meeting with customers and partner candidates during Nov 6-8 in India.

Pre-registration is now open.

Exclusive seminars and networking events where you can explore the benefits of MySQL Enterprise are now available.

Users, Customers and Resellers interested in MySQL products are encouraged to attend in the following cities:

Developers of open source database, MySQL AB has announced recently that it has plans to release alpha and beta versions of several new Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) products this month.

This includes 'release candidate' of MySQL 5.1 -- a major new upgrade of the world’s most popular open source database server.

The announcement was made during the inaugural Japanese MySQL Users Conference.

"This wave of new technology represents the widest range of new products in any month in our company’s history -- innovative, new ways for users to extend their database applications," said Marten Mickos, MySQL AB’s CEO.

He added, "We're proud to work in tandem with our open source community to continuously release, evaluate and improve new MySQL features -- so that we can all benefit from the highest-quality software possible."

All of the following GPL-licensed products are scheduled to be available for download by the end of September.

MySQL 5.1 Community Server
The upcoming version of MySQL includes database partitioning capabilities to improve performance and simplify management of very large applications.

Falcon Database Engine
MySQL’s newest transactional database engine, being designed for large-memory, multi-threaded and multi-core CPU applications such as high-volume Web sites. Falcon is available in a special preview version of MySQL 6.0.

MySQL Proxy
A software program that sits between a client and MySQL server(s) that can monitor, analyze, or transform their communication. MySQL Proxy’s flexibility can address many common uses -- such as query analysis, filtering and modification, and much, much more.

MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1
A new high-performance MySQL ODBC driver that provides client access to a MySQL database using the industry-standard Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) API

NitroSecurity Inc. and MySQL AB announced that they will jointly develop a storage engine for the open-source MySQL database that is optimized for very large high-performance databases.

The engine will be based on NitroSecurity's NitroEDB technology, which is now used in the Portsmouth, N.H., vendor's real-time network security software. The technology is said to offer fast performance for databases with billions of records -- even when running on commodity hardware.

MySQL has a modular architecture that allows users to plug in a storage engine of their own choosing. MyISAM, the default storage engine for MySQL, is still the most widely used, according to MySQL CEO, Marten Mickos. The most popular alternative, however, is InnoDB, which is developed by Innobase Oy in Helsinki, Finland.

In the past year, MySQL rival Oracle Corp. has bought both Innobase and Sleepycat Software Inc., whose BerkeleyDB database can also be used as a storage engine for MySQL. Whereas Oracle agreed to continue developing InnoDB for MySQL for an undisclosed number of years, MySQL has taken many steps to wean its users off possible dependence on Oracle-owned technology.

In April, MySQL created a program to help encourage third-party companies to make engines compatible with its database while also announcing that it would create its own, code-named Falcon. In August, MySQL said that future versions of its database will not support BerkeleyDB.

Solid Information Technology Inc. is releasing the SolidDB storage engine for MySQL by the year's end.