MySQL AB to Offer Low-Cost, High Availability Solution for Business-Critical LAMP Applications

Business Wire, May 8, 2007

Open Source Database Vendor Partners With LINBIT to Jointly Promote & Support DRBD for MySQL Enterprise

CUPERTINO, Calif. & VIENNA, Austria -- MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, today announced a joint partnership and services agreement with LINBIT, the well-respected Austrian provider of high availability Linux systems technology called DRBD. Through its MySQL Enterprise subscription offering, MySQL AB will now offer direct support for this proven, low-cost solution for attaining "Four Nines" and greater uptime for transactional database applications in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) computing environments.

"Traditionally, only large enterprise users have been able to afford High Availability database products," said Ulf Sandberg, MySQL AB's vice president of services. "Now, the combination of MySQL Enterprise and DRBD puts high availability within the reach of all companies with a proven, cost-effective open source solution to ensure the reliability of their business-critical Web sites and IT applications."

DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device) is a Linux kernel module that provides a distributed, synchronized storage system over a network. In conjunction with LINBIT, MySQL AB's professional services group can assist customers in implementing efficient DRBD HA solutions for both existing and new MySQL applications without extensive extra resources. Already, MySQL AB has helped a number of companies leverage DRBD successfully across a variety of business applications, including E-commerce, reservation systems, social networking sites, session management, online gaming and dynamic content management.

"Using DRBD with MySQL, our client has enjoyed over Four Nines -- 99.99 percent -- of availability for the past three years on their high-traffic E-commerce site," said Drew Kutcharian, CTO of Venarc, Inc. "We evaluated Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and other open source databases. None of them could match the price/performance of MySQL. We are very satisfied with MySQL: it's easy to work with, extremely reliable, and administration is a breeze."

LINBIT CTO Philipp Reisner said, "DRBD is an excellent and cost-efficient building block in adding High Availability to a huge variety of workloads, including relational databases. We are pleased to see MySQL include that offering with the world's leading open source RDBMS."

Reisner, who also serves as LINBIT's co-CEO, and has been the lead developer of DRBD since its inception, also emphasized that LINBIT is "confident that existing and future MySQL customers will love this high-performance, low cost HA option that MySQL has added to its portfolio."

For more information on how to use DRBD with MySQL, please visit http://www.mysql.com/drbd.> About LINBIT

LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, develops, markets and supports High Availability solutions based on open source technologies including the Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD). At tens of thousands of installations world-wide, DRBD is the industry's most widely deployed open source, shared-nothing storage replication technology.

LINBIT's customers around the globe include Siemens AG, EADS, T-Systems and Porsche in Germany, Ericsson AB in Sweden, ISO New England in the United States, and many others. For more information about LINBIT, please visit http://www.linbit.com.

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 in a profitable, sustainable business model. For more information about MySQL, please visit www.mysql.com.

MySQL is a registered trademark of MySQL AB in the USA and other countries. DRBD is a registered trademark of LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH. Other product or company names mentioned may be the trademarks of their respective companies.