MySQL Enterprise Simplifies Database Scale-Out with New Automated Replication Monitoring & Advisory Tools

Free 30-Day Trial Subscriptions Now Available at www.MySQL.com

TOKYO -- September 11, 2007 -- MySQL AB, developer of the world’s most popular open source database, today announced a major new version of MySQL Enterprise, its commercial subscription service -- adding many new features to make it easier and more affordable for corporate database developers and DBAs to manage their high-growth Web sites and critical business applications.

The MySQL Enterprise Fall 2007 Release was unveiled this morning at the inaugural Japanese MySQL Users Conference being held here this week in front of hundreds of MySQL users, customers, partners and employees.

In addition, the company is now featuring free-of-charge 30-day trial subscriptions for the new MySQL Enterprise service on its Web site at www.mysql.com/enterprise.

"By scaling-out with MySQL, we were recently able to add 3 million new users in less than a month," said Nat Brown, CTO of iLike, one of the Web's fastest-growing music discovery services, and among the most popular applications on the Facebook Platform. "We chose MySQL Enterprise for two reasons: first, access to super-sharp support technicians who clearly know what they're doing and can help us overcome our toughest problems. Second, the new MySQL Enterprise monitoring tools give us unprecedented views into real-time and historical DB performance -- to troubleshoot problems, balance workloads, and predict future resource requirements."

"Database Scale-Out is how many of today’s largest and fastest-growing online companies keep their sites up, their IT budgets down -- and their technical teams sane," said Marten Mickos, MySQL AB’s CEO. "Instead of continually investing in more and more expensive hardware and proprietary software licenses, they can now better manage their growth by replicating database servers on low-cost commodity PCs. Our new version of MySQL Enterprise makes database Scale-Out even more affordable and easier to administer for these companies implementing a modern Web-based infrastructure."

MySQL Enterprise Fall 2007 Release

A MySQL Enterprise subscription consists of:

• MySQL Enterprise Server Software -- the most reliable, secure and up-to-date version of the world’s most popular open source database. MySQL Enterprise subscribers receive monthly software updates, quarterly service packs, and emergency hot fix builds, as well as a customizable MySQL Install and Configuration Wizard for a wide range of popular platforms.
• MySQL Enterprise Monitor -- A dynamically-delivered “Virtual DBA Assistant” which continuously monitors the health of a user’s database servers, alerting them to -- and helping them solve -- potential problems before they can impact critical applications. The MySQL Enterprise Monitor now features a new Replication Monitor, over 100 Advisor Rules, and a gallery of more than 20 graphs to give IT departments greater insight into their distributed database environments by watching key security, performance and uptime metrics -- and automatically suggesting best-practice improvements.
• Premier Enterprise-class Production Support -- Addressing the concerns of many IT organizations using open source technology, MySQL AB provides 24x7 telephone, Knowledge Base, and Web support directly from the developers of MySQL software. The new release now features streamlined diagnostic support tools for quicker resolution of technical issues.

Pricing & Availability

MySQL Enterprise Fall 2007 Release is scheduled to be commercially available in the next 30 days. Free 30-day trial subscriptions of the new version can be downloaded now from www.mysql.com/enterprise.

MySQL Enterprise pricing ranges from $599 to $4,999 (EUR 479-3,999, GBP 369-3,099) per server per year -- and is also available through an unlimited site-wide agreement, starting at $40,000 (EUR 31,900, GBP 24,600) per year.

What is Database Scale-Out?

Scale-Out is a modern computing architecture that enables organizations to improve application performance and scalability on an incremental, as-needed basis by adding multiple replicated database servers on low-cost commodity hardware. This is in contrast to a Scale-Up approach, which requires organizations to make a large up-front investment in more expensive and complex server hardware and database licenses in order to add capacity.

In the online world, many of the largest and fastest-growing companies use MySQL to cost-effectively Scale-Out their successful businesses, saving millions of dollars over high-cost proprietary technology -- including Google, Yahoo, Zappos, Ticketmaster, Wikipedia, YouTube, Evite/Citysearch and Booking.com. A number of customer success stories and Scale-Out whitepapers are available at www.mysql.com/scaleout.

About MySQL

MySQL AB develops and supports a family of high-performance, affordable database products. The company’s flagship offering is 'MySQL Enterprise’, a comprehensive set of production-tested software, proactive monitoring tools, and premium support services.

MySQL is the world's most popular open source database software, with over 11 million active installations. Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, business-critical systems and packaged software -- including industry leaders such as Yahoo!, Alcatel-Lucent, Google, Nokia and YouTube.

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

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