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Santa Clara, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - April 26, 2006 - MySQL AB has instituted a certification program for its database storage engines being developed for its flagship MySQL database server by third-party partners and the open source developer community.

According to the company, several companies, including Innobase OY (a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation) and Solid Information Technology are supporting the new program by joining MySQL AB in producing open source engines for the millions of MySQL database users worldwide.

The MySQL Certified Storage Engine Program's benefits were introduced as part of a keynote address by Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB, at the 2006 MySQL Users Conference held in Santa Clara.

Mr. Mickos commented, ''A key benefit of open source software is that it is modular and easy to integrate. MySQL is the first to take this collaborative concept into the database management system. Our Pluggable Storage Engine API allows partners and community developers to build their own dedicated storage engines, thus giving users and customers more choice. We expect to see some of the most high-performing scale-out database solutions emerge from this new program.''

MySQL's pluggable storage engine architecture provides performance and manageability benefits by allowing custom ''engines'' that can be mixed-and-matched, depending on what specific actions need to be used in a particular application -- avoiding an inefficient ''one-size-fits-all'' approach.

The new multi-tiered certification program is intended to enable database engine developers to certify that their software has been tested and is compatible with the MySQL Server. This will ensure users that these certified engines have reached high-level standards of usability, performance and integration.

There are three categories of storage engines that will be covered by the program. Those developed by MySQL AB itself; those built by the company's third-party ISV partners; and those projects contributed by the open source community. MySQL AB will help promote these partners' solutions to its customers and open source community through a range of co-marketing activities.

MySQL currently offers a number of its own storage engines for a variety of common database uses, including MyISAM, Cluster, Federated, and Archive. The company is also developing a new advanced transactional database engine -- code-named FALCON -- based on technology created by renowned database architect Jim Starkey, and acquired by the company earlier this year. Designed specifically for modern enterprise and Web 2.0 applications, FALCON will be available through the open source GPL license, and is scheduled to enter public beta testing later this summer.

Heikki Tuuri, Vice President of the InnoDB Group at Oracle added, ''MySQL users can continue to depend on InnoDB, knowing it is ''business as usual'' in terms of InnoDB development and the relationship between MySQL AB and the InnoDB development team.''

Alain Couder, President and Chief Executive Officer at Solid Information Technology added, ''Open source users are asking for robust technology and enterprise-class support and providing these solutions to the database market has been Solid's bread and butter for the past 14 years. We are teaming up with MySQL to bring our core technology and best practices to the open source community, and we will work together to promote the adoption of open source databases all the way up to the glass house.''

Christine Martino, VP of the Open Source and Linux Organization at HP commented, ''HP supports MySQL's efforts to open up their pluggable storage engine architecture to partners and open source users.''

MySQL AB will be working with other database vendors and community developers to build additional storage engines for MySQL.

To learn more, please visit: www.mysql.com/engines.

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