MySQL to Celebrate its 10th Anniversary at the MySQL Users Conference, April 18-21 in Santa Clara

Nominations Being Accepted Now for MySQL "Application of the Year" Awards

CUPERTINO, Calif. — April 4, 2005 — MySQL AB will mark the 10-year anniversary of the world's most popular open source database at the upcoming 2005 MySQL Users Conference, April 18-21 in Santa Clara, California. Co-presented with O'Reilly Media, Inc., this year's event will feature record-high numbers of attendees, exhibitors, industry keynotes, sessions and tutorials. A complete program schedule and registration information is available at http://mysqluc.com/.

"Our industry is undergoing massive changes that provide great opportunities for those corporate enterprises and technology vendors that are willing to embrace them," said Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB. "As MySQL celebrates a decade of open source success, our user conference will become a focal point for developers and key industry players interested in helping to shape the direction of things to come. We look forward to thanking our community for their past contributions, and sharing our future plans with them – including the upcoming release of MySQL 5.0."

MySQL AB is now seeking nominations for its "MySQL Application of the Year" award, the winner of which will be announced at the MySQL Users Conference. Designed to publicize the best corporate and community database applications built using MySQL, these awards also recognize the organizations and professionals who successfully develop and implement this technology. An online nomination form is available at http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/events/uc2005/awards.html. MySQL AB will also recognize its "Partner of the Year" at this year's conference.

The MySQL Users Conference 2005 will showcase over 85 tutorials and sessions covering all aspects of MySQL, including tracks on database optimization, migration, scalability, data warehousing and "best practice" development within Java, .NET and LAMP environments. Keynote addresses will be presented by a number of leading open source and industry luminaries, including:

• Adam Bosworth, Google's vice president of engineering
• Ron Eller, HP's vice president of Solution Alliances, Technology Solutions Group
• Miguel de Icaza, GNOME foundation president & Novell's VP of developer platform
• Michael Tiemann, CTO of Red Hat
• MySQL co-founders Monty Widenius, David Axmark and CEO Marten Mickos
• Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Media founder and CEO

Conference sponsors include Hewlett-Packard, Business Objects, Emic Networks, Four J's, Genesi, Intel, GoldenGate Software, IBM, Ticketmaster, ActiveGrid, Dell, Embarcadero Technologies, Google, JasperReports, MetiLinx, Novell, OLAP4All, Quest Software, Rackspace, SpikeSource, SugarCRM, and Zend. These and many other companies exhibiting at the conference will showcase new open source database technologies.

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About MySQL

MySQL AB develops and supports a family of high performance, affordable database servers and tools.  The company's flagship product is MySQL, the world's most popular open source database, with more than six million active installations.  Many of the world's largest organizations, including Yahoo!, Sabre Holdings, The Associated Press, Suzuki and NASA are realizing significant cost savings by using MySQL to power high-volume Web sites, business-critical enterprise applications and packaged software.

With headquarters in Sweden and the United States — and operations around the world — MySQL AB supports both open source values and corporate customers' needs in a profitable, sustainable business. For more information about MySQL, please visit www.mysql.com.

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