Enterprise Software & Hardware Vendors Rally around MySQL Network Certification

HP, Intel, Novell, Red Hat & Leading ISVs Join New MySQL Partner Program to make it Easier for IT Organizations to Integrate Popular Open Source Database

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.

“Open source software has many well-known benefits, but its do-it-yourself nature can be difficult for some companies to implement,” said Zack Urlocker, vice president of marketing for MySQL AB. “Our close collaboration with partners on MySQL Network can help enterprise customers smooth the integration of MySQL into their existing IT environments. These software-certification efforts will give customers confidence that MySQL and our partners' products have been tested together and are ready for enterprise production use.”

The multi-tiered MySQL Network Certified Partner Program enables ISV partners to certify that their software has been tested and is compatible with the MySQL Pro Certified database server and related MySQL tools. As part of the program, partners receive a subscription to MySQL Network - and access to “MySQL Network Certified” logos and co-marketing promotions. The program also offers opportunities to hardware vendors and consulting companies to leverage the growing adoption of MySQL within mainstream IT organizations. Additional information and benefits on joining the new program are available at http://solutions.mysql.com/.

To date, over 25 companies have said their products will be certified for MySQL Network, including HP, Novell, Sun, Red Hat, JBoss, Embarcadero Technologies, GoldenGate, Quest Software, Business Objects, SSA Global, SugarCRM, Safe Software, Trolltech, Arkeia, Funambol, Four J's, Versora, ActiveGrid, OmniPilot Software, Acronis, Hit Software, Alpha Software, Ispirer Systems, Metilinx, IT-Map, Flowerfire and EBM Software.

Supporting Quotes from Partners about MySQL Network & the New Program

In addition, MySQL Network and its new partner program have received key endorsements from several industry-leading partners, such as:

Business Objects

"Business Objects has always provided companies with an open business intelligence platform that offers fast and easy access to a wide variety of applications and data sources. With MySQL Network, organizations can more easily leverage their MySQL database technology with our industry leading business intelligence platform, BusinessObjects™ XI. Our integrated solution helps customers extend business intelligence across their entire organization reliably, easily, and affordably."
— Lance Walter, vice president of product marketing at Business Objects

Embarcadero Technologies

"Embarcadero's largest enterprise customers choose MySQL Network for some of the same reasons they choose Embarcadero's tools -- to increase productivity, reduce risk, and proactively respond to database issues that arise in a production environment. We certify our software on MySQL Network to assure customers that their database investment is well-protected. The program's combination of certified software, production support, and proactive advisory alerts delivers great value at the lowest cost of ownership."
— Robin Schumacher, VP of product management for Embarcadero Technologies

GoldenGate

"Becoming one of the first ISVs to join the MySQL Network, GoldenGate reiterates its support for the open-source community. As the leader in transactional data management, GoldenGate enables MySQL and Linux to seamlessly coexist with other legacy and open systems databases. This partnership strengthens both MySQL and open-source ecosystems, helping businesses to confidently deploy these solutions in their mission critical data infrastructures."
— Tim Rathbun, executive VP, Product Management and Marketing, GoldenGate

HP

"HP and MySQL understand that more and more customers are recognizing open source software as a cost-effective and flexible solution. The combination of HP support and standards-based hardware with MySQL Network has broad appeal to many enterprise customers looking to use open source to reduce costs and provide solution flexibility in their datacenters."
— Martin Fink, vice president of Linux, HP

Intel

"MySQL Network addresses a key IT requirement: provide support and services as a single subscription-based package for commercial users. Intel Corporation is working with MySQL to help assure Intel-based platforms are fully optimized for users of MySQL Network.”
— Will Swope, executive vice president, Software Solutions Group, Intel Corporation

JBoss

"JBoss Professional Open Source is as much about making open source a safe choice for the enterprise as it is about delivering innovative products that improve developer productivity. JBoss is pleased to support the MySQL Network, which will help enterprise developers and DBAs save time and effort. We look forward to certifying JBoss for MySQL Network, ensuring that enterprise customers can seamlessly deploy our technologies together."
— Bob Bickel, vice president of Corporate Strategy and Development, JBoss, Inc.

Novell

"The relationship with industry partners such as MySQL AB improves Novell's ability to deliver enterprise-ready solutions to customers with heterogeneous IT infrastructures in all industry sectors. MySQL Network is a proven solution that provides outstanding reliability, stability and performance both on closed and open source platforms and is a perfect fit for Novell's multi-platform strategy. This certification will enable additional customers and partners to confidently develop major database installations more competitively and efficiently in a market that is ever more performance hungry and price-sensitive."
— Markus Rex, vice president & general manager, Novell's SUSE LINUX Business Unit

Quest Software

“With the rapidly increasing adoption rate of MySQL within enterprise environments, we are proud to participate in MySQL Network certification. Quest helps organizations get more performance and productivity from their databases and applications by delivering an integrated MySQL development environment with Toad for MySQL. As a result of our valuable partnership with MySQL AB, Quest Toad for MySQL has accumulated approximately 100,000 user downloads since its release in April of 2004.”
— Larry Humphries, vice president of product management, Quest Software

Red Hat

"Red Hat and MySQL have many common customers who are taking advantage of open source throughout their infrastructure. With MySQL Network, customers can now rest assured that certified combinations of MySQL and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are ready for mission-critical deployments."
— Michael Tiemann, vice president of Open Source Affairs, Red Hat

SSA Global

SSA Global™, one of the world's leading providers of extended ERP solutions, is announcing support for MySQL Network. SSA Global will certify SSA ERP LN 6.1, its enterprise solution for discrete manufacturing companies, with MySQL 5.0 later this year. "MySQL Network offers SSA ERP LN customers with a more cost effective alternative that combines our industry leading ERP with a proven database designed to meet our customers' toughest requirements.”
— Rick Bernard, vice president solution management, SSA Global

Sun Microsystems

"Sun and MySQL have been working together to make available a certified and optimized version of the MySQL Network to compliment the innovative online support options built into Solaris 10. With the release of Solaris 10 and the announcement of our plans for OpenSolaris, we have seen a increasing number of new partners providing great solutions on both SPARC and x86 systems." — Thomas Goguen, vice president, software platforms, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Trolltech

"By combining Qt and MySQL Network, corporate developers will be even more effective when developing platform independent database driven applications. MySQL Network Certification is consistent with the Qt philosophy of making developers' lives easier."
— Eirik Chambe-Eng, president and co-founder, Trolltech

VERITAS Software

"Keeping databases highly available is imperative for any business. Minutes of downtime can be extremely costly in terms of revenue and productivity. The VERITAS Cluster Server Enterprise Agent for MySQL works to keep critical MySQL databases online and available helping to ensure business without interruption. With MySQL Network's certification program, our joint customers will continue to benefit from the combined strengths of our products knowing the solutions have been jointly tested to help ensure the highest levels of reliability, security and uptime."
— Kenneth Jensen, director, Strategic Alliances, VERITAS Software

[For a complete list of supporting partner quotes, please visit http://www.mysql.com/network/partnerquotes.html]

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