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【赛迪网讯】3月8日消息，市场调研公司国际数据公司IDC周一称，全球五大数据库软件生产巨头在2004年仍然占据了该行业排行榜的前五位。甲骨文继续位居头把交椅，但微软也不甘示弱，去年业务实现最快增长速度。

据路透社消息，IDC称，甲骨文一直是该领域的领导者，根据公司2004的初步财报数据，甲骨文在数据库软件市场的占有率达41.3%，比2003年增长14.5%。

IDC指出，数据库软件的整体市场规模在2004年增长了12%至150亿美元，2003年增长6%。

微软是全球最大的软件生产商，在数据库软件领域位列第三，2004年的市占率为13.4%，比2003年大幅增加22%。IBM仍位居第二，市占率为30.6%，比2003年增加8%。

【赛迪网讯】美国西部时间2月4日，测试厂商Coverity公司发表声明，称对MySQL数据库软件的源代码进行分析后，结果表明其缺陷数量远远小于商业数据库软件的水平。

Coverity公司的首席执行官塞思表示，使用Co verity公司自己的工具进行的分析在MySQL数据库软件中发现了97处缺陷，其中至少包括一个严重的安全缺陷。他指出，但是，与大多数的商业数据库软件相比，这一数字是相当小的。塞思指出，就业界平均水平而言，MySQL是极其优异的。

对于软件开发商而言，源代码分析工具正在迅速成为必不可少的工具。微软公司利用它自己的工具对其软件产品进行分析、查找和修正缺。包括 Ounce Labs和Reflective在内的其它厂商则向各大公司销售它们的分析工具，Coverity的客户就包括思科和甲骨文。

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San Francisco, Calif. - August 15, 2006 - The MySQL open source database has become the database-of-choice for the new generation of highly-popular Internet companies pioneering new “Web 2.0” innovation.

Leading Web 2.0 sites such as YouTube, Flickr, Habbo Hotel, Linden Labs, CyWorld, Technorati, Facebook, FeedBurner, Feedster, Wikipedia, Digg, LiveJournal, Mixi.jp, SimpleStar, PhotoBucket, 37signals, del.icio.us, Trulia, Neopets, and Zimbra have all selected MySQL to power their explosive growth - due to the database’s speed and ability to easily “scale-out” on low-cost hardware.

"Without the LAMP software stack, many Web 2.0 companies would have never got off the ground," says Tim O'Reilly, the alpha geek watcher and CEO of O’Reilly Media. LAMP is the acronym for the popular open source computing environment that comprises the Linux operating system, Apache Web server, MySQL database and Perl, Python or PHP scripting languages.

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Two of the most widely used applications on Linux will achieve application portability and be represented on the LSB Steering Committee

San Francisco, Calif. - At the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, the Free Standards Group (FSG), a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing and promoting open source software standards, today announced that two of the most important and widely-used applications on Linux: RealPlayer and the MySQL database, are certifying to the Linux Standard Base. The result will be decreased build, porting and support efforts for the software developers and increased choice for end users. For the first time, a single RealPlayer or MySQL package will run on the many LSB-certified Linux distributions including Red Hat, Novell, Ubuntu, Red Flag and many others. Both vendors plan on making the next versions of their products LSB-compliant.

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Cupertino, Calif. - MySQL AB today announced that Forrester Research has named the company and its database software as an open source leader in two recent independent industry reports. MySQL was the only company, product or software project cited as a leader in both reports -- “The Forrester Wave: Open Source Databases, Q2 2006," Forrester Research, Inc., June 2006; and “The Forrester Wave: Open Source Projects, Q2 2006," Forrester Research, Inc., June 2006.

"This is a great acknowledgement for MySQL and open source software as a whole," said Zack Urlocker, MySQL AB's executive vice president of products. "It is a very powerful statement to have a leading analyst firm like Forrester pay attention to open source in two separate studies.”

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San Mateo and Cupertino, Calif. – July 17, 2006 – Jigsaw Data Corp., the online global marketplace for buying and trading business contact information, announced that it has selected MySQL, the world's most popular open source database software, to power its popular online user-generated database of over 3.3 million business contacts at more than 360,000 companies.

Demand for the Jigsaw marketplace continues to grow rapidly as an increasing number of sales, marketing, and recruiting professionals turn to Jigsaw as a resource for finding detailed business contact information such as title, direct telephone and email address to grow their businesses. In the 18 months since its launch, the Jigsaw.com site has rocketed from anonymity to become one of the top 5000 most visited web sites, according to Alexa rankings.

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France's largest show and event ticketing organisation improves the performance of its booking system with the help of leading open source database

Paris -- July 11th, 2006 -- Billetel, the IT subsidiary of FNAC Spectacles, France’s largest entertainment ticketing company, has selected the MySQL open source database to run its new online ticket reservation system.

FNAC is the number one distributor of entertainment tickets in France -- offering a selection of more than 6,000 cultural events and a total of almost 50,000 individual performances a year. The Billetel software solution used by FNAC SPECTACLES was launched in 1990. Today, it is installed in all 350 FNAC ticket offices in France, Belgium and Switzerland, and also controls the company’s direct sales via the Web and by telephone. Billetel is also the solution used by the Carrefour and Geant hypermarkets.

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Open Source Database Leader Adds Paul Weinstein as Executive Vice President of Business Development & Clint Smith as General Counsel

Cupertino, Calif. -- July 10, 2006 -- MySQL AB, the developer of the world’s most popular open source database, today announced the appointment of Paul V. Weinstein as executive vice president of business development, and Clint N. Smith as vice president and general counsel. Both executives will be based in the company’s newly-relocated Silicon Valley business headquarters in Cupertino, California.

MySQL AB also announced the promotion of Zack Urlocker to executive vice president of products.

“As our business continues to grow, we are fortunate to fill these important management positions with such well-qualified, experienced executives,” said Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB. “We look forward to the significant contributions that Paul and Clint will make to help us better support our customers and partners.”