Well-known MySQL users

Scott Noyes, Oracle

Published: 02 Nov 2006

Can MySQL challenge Oracle in the market in features and functionality? How widely is MySQL being used?

MySQL says that their target niche is different than that of Oracle. Still, MySQL is extremely popular, and with the Enterprise offering, MySQL may capture an even greater portion of the market. Here are just a few MySQL users:

CraigsList
Google
Yahoo!
NASA
Associated Press
Slashdot
Dell
Hewlett-Packard
Motorola
Cisco Systems
Orbitz
del.icio.us
Flickr
Wikipedia
YouTube

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Management traits make MySQL Enterprise a fit for trading platform MySQL under the Oracle flag has not been without controversy. But the MySQL Enterprise Edition fits the bill for makers of a trading platform with demanding customers.

Oracle’s MySQL 5.6 spans to NoSQL to offer more agility Oracle has released version 5.6 of MySQL, which will hit the “sweet spot of the web market” according to Tomas Ulin, vice-president of engineering

MySQL is "world's most popular" open source database Oracle has announced what it labels as a Development Milestone Release (DMR) of MySQL Cluster 7.3.

MySQL partner community talks of market maturation, despite lackluster Oracle channel support Despite Oracle’s lack of marketing support for MySQL, VARs and developers are seeing success with the database with the help of SkySQL and recent enterprise-features.

Despite lingering skepticism, Oracle soldiers on with MySQL Oracle has announced a MySQL 5.6 development release and continues to proclaim its dedication to the open source database platform, despite ongoing skepticism.

Oracle MySQL 5.5 eyes Windows, SQL Server Oracle MySQL 5.5 is now generally available after coming out in beta in April. The new version is focused on grabbing some of the Windows database market away from Microsoft SQL Server.

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