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April 15, 2008 - Since MySQL became part of Sun in February, interest in the already-popular open source database has grown dramatically. MySQL downloads have increased from 50,000 a day to over 65,000. The Sun-MySQL Meetup Mashup World Tour hosted hundreds of users at events in over 20 countries -- and culminatee at the annual MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, CA, where record attendance was over 2,000.

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The Sun MySQL Meetup Mashup World Tour made stops at cities all over the world, including New York, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo, Hamburg, Melbourne, Helsiniki, and others where user gathered to share their projects and experiences. The tour finished up at the MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, CA.

The MySQL User Conference & Expo is the world's largest annual community of open source database developers, DBAs, vendors and corporate IT users. Attendees will be able to learn about the MySQL product road map, share best practices, and interact with leading experts and top executives to talk about MySQL technology, its use in the outside world, and its growing leadership in the database market of the network economy. Attendees will include database experts and speakers from Facebook, Yahoo!, Google, eBay, Fotolog, Tickmaster, Youtube, and other premier Web 2.0 and enterprise companies.

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"As the definition of 'online' expands to cover everything from cell phones to TV to your car, Sun will help foster MySQL's scope as a leading platform for Web 2.0 and modern Enterprise 2.0 infrastructure," said Zack Urlocker, vice president of products for Sun's newly-formed Database Group.

MySQL 5.1 Unveiled

Sun unveiled MySQL 5.1, the latest version of the database, which includes significant performance and data management enhancements for large-scale applications . You can download the release candidate right now . Even with all the new features, MySQL's "15 minute rule", which enables users to download, install and get the database up and running within 15 minutes, remains firmly in place.

These new features enhance MySQL's well-recognized ability to manage the explosive growth of Web Scale applications, and with the addition of Sun's 17,000 person global services organization, make it even more appealing to companies seeking a database solution with high reliability and a low TCO.

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"We're using MySQL 5.1 in production for a Weblog discovery code database which indexes approximately 18 million URLs per day," said Kevin Burton, founder and CEO of Spinner.com. "The new features in 5.1 extend the ease-of-use, scalability, and performance that MySQL is already famous for, so it can continue to meet the increasingly demanding requirements of today's database applications."

Community Links

Join a MySQL user group to participate in the community, join the MySQL Facebook group, and share your ideas at MySQL Forge wiki.

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Jonathan Schwartz, Rich Green & Zack Urlocker Talk About MySQL

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, Rich Green, Sun EVP of Software, and Zack Urlocker, Sun MySQL VP of Products chatted informally about the merger of Sun and MySQL, and the growth in open source software and the network economy during the Community Town Hall that kicked off the Meetup Mashup World Tour in February.