Finland-based Aito Technologies, developer of customer experience analytics product suite, today announced its plans to employ Sun Microsystems? MySQL Embedded Database Server software to successfully analyze up to billions of phone calls, text messages or mobile data sessions on a daily basis.

Source: http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/press...se_2010_01.html

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the details of the Sun Tech Days worldwide developer conference for 2009-10 at http://developers.sun.com/events/techdays/index.jsp. Sun Tech Days is a multi-city world tour designed to showcase how the developer community can leverage Sun technologies, services and products to drive the next generation of industry innovation. Since 1998, the Sun Tech Days worldwide conference has brought together hundreds of thousands of developers and students to learn about technology from industry experts.

Source: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2009-12/sun....20091207.1.xml

Sun Microsystems today announced Cashpoint, the Austrian betting and gaming company, has selected Sun's MySQL&trade; database to manage its customer, Web, and results data. In order to protect its systems' high-availability, Cashpoint uses both a MySQL Enterprise&trade; Unlimited subscription and the MySQL Cluster database product. Employing an enterprise-wide MySQL Enterprise subscription along with MySQL Cluster contributes to considerable cost savings for the company.</p>

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Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that CASPUR, a non-profit, consortium of Italian universities focused on scientific supercomputing and innovative technologies, has subscribed to Sun's MySQL Enterprise&trade; database service.

Source: http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/press...se_2009_16.html

E.ON ES, a subsidiary within E.ON Group, today announced that it has purchased a multi-year MySQL Enterprise&trade; database subscription from Sun Microsystems to help power its advanced work order management system, used for the service and maintenance of Sweden's electricity distribution grid.

Source: http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/press...se_2009_15.html

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced an update to its MySQL Enterprise&trade; subscription, designed to assist corporate users improve the speed and uptime of their MySQL&trade; database applications. Thirty-day trial subscriptions of the new MySQL Enterprise Fall 2009 Release are now available free-of-charge from http://www.mysql.com/trials.

Source: http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/press...se_2009_14.html

Finland-based NetHawk today announced it has selected Sun Microsystems? MySQL Embedded Database Server software in order to meet its stringent requirements for application speed, scalability and 24x7 availability ? at half the cost of other databases.

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Joyent, a leading vendor in Enterprise-Class Cloud Computing, announced today that it is taking the proven performance and reliability of Sun Microsystems' MySQL database to a whole new level by offering optimizations to the Joyent Cloud for MySQL. Joyent and Sun's database group have teamed up to create Virtual Appliance templates for MySQL.Joyent's Virtual Appliance for MySQL is configured to maximize the open source database's performance on Joyent's powerful, secure and stable virtualization technology. Performance benchmarks (www.joyent.com/mysql) demonstrate that Joyent's Virtual Appliance for MySQL can deliver 3 times the number of Transactions per Second than comparable deployments of XEN-based clouds, such as Amazon's EC2.



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Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that TweetMeme, the innovative online application that tracks the popularity of links sent via Twitter, has subscribed to Sun's MySQL Enterprise database offering in order to keep up with the microblogging service's explosive growth. Created in 2008 by pioneering Web 2.0 startup Fav.or.it, TweetMeme gives the rapidly expanding Twitter community a means of easily seeing and sorting the most popular links on Twitter. TweetMeme also provides a realtime search facility of fully expanded, qualified and indexed links so that users can get answers to queries about very recent events or news.



Source: http://uk.sun.com/sunnews/press/2009/2009-06-30.jsp

Danfoss Electronic Controls & Sensors, one of Denmark's largest industrial companies, today announced it has selected Sun Microsystems' MySQL database to help power its air conditioning software application AKM, Adap-Kool Monitoring. The AKM software enables commercial facilities, such as grocery store staff, to monitor and control temperature levels inside store premises. Embedding MySQL into AKM will enable Danfoss to increase the number of concurrent users of the application, while maintaining a high level of availability and performance.

Source: http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/press...se_2009_12.html

Kickfire today announced a new series of Webinars for the data warehousing mass market, co-presented with Sun Microsystems and the Kimball Group, the definitive source for dimensional data warehousing expertise. The data warehousing mass market is comprised of deployments in the gigabytes to low terabytes which, according to an IDC/ComputerWorld survey, represent over three-quarters of the total market.The webinar series will begin on June 25th at 1:00 pm PDT. More information is available here.



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Sun Microsystems today announced the results of a regional survey that shows 44 percent of all large and medium-sized companies in the Nordic and Benelux countries are using open source software (OSS). The survey was conducted by the international market research company TNS Gallup, on behalf of Sun.

Source: http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/press...se_2009_10.html

Sun Microsystems today announced that the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) in Germany has purchased a MySQL Enterprise Unlimited database subscription to provide extra support for the E-learning system that the university's IT staff has developed and deployed for the entire University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr (UAMR). With Sun's MySQL Enterprise Unlimited offering, the UDE receives access to the advanced MySQL Enterprise Monitor software as well as around-the-clock technical support for any number of database applications ? all for one affordable, fixed price.

Source: http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/press...se_2009_09.html

Yesterday at the MySQL Conference & Expo, Karen Tegan Padir presented the annual MySQL awards to some of our best customers, partners and open source community contributors.And the Winners are ...



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Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced MySQL&trade; 5.4, a new version of the world's most popular open source database, designed to deliver significant performance and scalability improvements to MySQL applications. A preview version of MySQL 5.4 is available now for download at http://www.mysql.com/5.4. Today's announcement was made at the seventh annual MySQL Conference & Expo being held this week at the Santa Clara Convention Center. With more than 2,000 attendees, it is the world's largest event for open source database developers, DBAs, vendors and corporate IT managers.



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