MySQL AB Launches New Business Partner Program
The MySQL Enterprise Connection Alliance (MECA) Makes it Easier for
Companies to Reach & Interact with Millions of Open Source
Database Users
MySQL Conference & Expo 2007, Santa Clara, Calif. -- April
24, 2007 -- MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular
open source database, today announced the launch of a new business
partner program designed to make it easier for resellers, software
vendors, hardware companies, and IT service providers to offer
their database-related solutions to the millions of MySQL users
worldwide.
This morning’s announcement was made on the opening day
of the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo being held this week at
the Santa Clara Convention Center. Over 1,200 attendees
and 66 exhibitors are participating in the annual event --
exploring and celebrating the phenomenal momentum of open source
software such as MySQL.
The MySQL Enterprise Connection Alliance (MECA) is a multi-tiered
partner program with compelling benefits for differing type and
sized companies -- from hardware and software vendors to
resellers/distributors, training providers, hosting companies,
systems integrators and consulting firms. MECA offers
members special access and discounts to MySQL software
subscriptions and support, joint marketing and sales opportunities,
as well as assistance in assuring their commercial solutions work
well with MySQL Enterprise and other MySQL database tools.
“As one of the largest and most-experienced open source
vendors in the world, we’ve been able to assist many
companies looking to capitalize on the explosive interest in open
source -- and wanting to extend their offerings to our
market,” said Mark Burton, MySQL AB’s executive
vice president of sales, channels and alliances.
“MySQL can help our partners achieve their goals by
connecting them with potential users and customers within our large
and active community.”
A wide range of companies have announced plans to join the MECA
program, including: Alfresco, AxisOS, BakBone, BitRock, CodeGear,
Continuent, Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, Embarcadero, FileMaker,
GoldenGate Software, Hewlett-Packard, Infobright, Ingram Micro
Inc., JasperSoft, Logicworks, NetApp, NitroSecurity,
Oracle/Innobase, Pentaho, PremiumSoft, Red Hat, RippleTech,
SugarCRM, Solid, Sun Microsystems, Talend, Tandem-Forum, Unisys,
Webyog and Zmanda.
More information on the benefits of joining the MECA program is
available at http://solutions.mysql.com/partners/.
Select Partner Quotes
Alfresco
"MySQL has become a clear choice for traditional
enterprises as well as pioneering Web 2.0 companies, delivering
powerful database performance, ease of use and compelling cost of
ownership benefits. The advantages of the MECA partner program can
be clearly illustrated in our experience working jointly with MySQL
to deliver the fastest-ever JSR-170 benchmark for content
management."
-- Dr. Ian Howells, CMO, Alfresco
AxisOS
"After being a MySQL partner for the last six years, I
have seen MySQL manage their tremendous growth smoothly and
professionally. Throughout this process, every move they made they
did for the good of the open source community and their partners.
Their new MECA program is another step in the right direction --
support is a two-way street, and MySQL is showing what it means to
'give back' to the community."
-- Dr. John W. Horn, CEO, Axis Open Source Corporation
BakBone
"As a MySQL Enterprise Gold Certified partner, BakBone is
excited about being one of the first members of the new MECA
partner program. This underscores our commitment to providing Linux
and multi-platform data protection to MySQL customers.
BakBone is well suited to meeting the backup and recovery demands
of the Linux community, providing flexible and reliable solutions
that help customers more easily embrace open source
technologies."
-- Jeff Drescher, director of product management, BakBone
BitRock
"The MySQL database is one of the most popular components
of our open source stacks. As one of the first members of
MySQL's new MECA partner program, customers can have
confidence in BitRock's ability to make it easy to install,
configure, and integrate MySQL Enterprise with other applications.
BitRock Custom Stacks, in combination with MySQL Enterprise, allow
ISVs to provide their users with a complete, high-performance
software stack for their application."
-- Daniel Lopez Ridruejo, CTO, BitRock
CodeGear
"CodeGear is delighted to be a member of the MySQL
Enterprise Connection Alliance. This alliance brings together the
world’s largest independent developer community and the
most popular open source database company to make it faster, easier
and more affordable for software developers to produce rich,
database-driven Web applications.”
-- Michael Swindell, vice president of products and strategy,
CodeGear
Continuent
“As a long-standing MySQL partner since 2002, we
recognize the criticality of partnerships. We are pleased
to join the new MySQL Enterprise Connection Alliance. As
organizations continue to adopt MySQL Enterprise for
business-critical applications, value-add solutions such as
Continuent’s high-availability and scale-out solutions,
from MECA partners are increasingly important. Continuent
uni/cluster for MySQL Enterprise addresses what many enterprises
need -- a cost-effective, reliable way to ensure that MySQL
database applications are available 24/7.”
-- Eero Teerikorpi, CEO, Continuent
Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
“As one of the first members of MySQL's new MECA
partner program, Dolphin customers can have the confidence of
knowing that Dolphin Express interconnect technology is optimized
to work with MySQL Cluster, the highest performance, most reliable,
secure and up-to-date cluster version of the world’s most
popular open source database. Our participation in MECA
underscores our commitment to providing the highest throughput and
fastest response time cluster interconnect solutions to
the growing MySQL community."
-- Kare Lochsen, CEO, Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
Embarcadero
“As one of the first members of MySQL's new MECA
partner program, Embarcadero customers can have the confidence of
knowing that our flagship products, including DBArtisan and
ER/Studio, are optimized to work with MySQL Enterprise.
Our participation in MECA underscores our commitment to providing
cross-platform database tools to the growing MySQL
community."
-- Greg Keller, vice president of product management, Embarcadero
Technologies
FileMaker
“FileMaker (
www.filemaker.com/mysql
)
is excited to join the MySQL MECA partner program.
Connecting FileMaker and MySQL database technologies will allow
developers to create a huge variety of working solutions amazingly
fast compared to traditional programming tools."
-- Ryan Rosenberg, vice president, Marketing and Services,
FileMaker
GoldenGate Software
"Participation in the MECA partner program reinforces
GoldenGate Software's ongoing commitment to the MySQL user
community, providing solutions for real-time data
integration. We are pleased to extend our heterogeneous
support to include MySQL Enterprise, for the highest levels of
reliability, security and uptime."
-- Sami Akbay, vice president of marketing, GoldenGate Software
HP
“Customers recognize the significant value of the HP and
MySQL relationship, as HP was the first vendor to provide a single
point of accountability for consulting, integration and support
services for customers incorporating the MySQL database into their
open source IT environments. HP is fully behind
MySQL’s efforts to strengthen the open source ecosystem
through the new MECA partner program.”
-- Christine Martino, vice president, Open Source and Linux
Organization, HP
Infobright
“Infobright is proud to be a member of MySQL’s
new MECA partner program. Together, Infobright and MySQL
deliver a solution for customers who need to store vast amount of
data for complex analysis. Infobright’s membership in
MECA assures our customers a seamless integration with MySQL
Enterprise for reliability, ease of use and low cost of
ownership.”
-- Miriam Tuerk, president and CEO, Infobright Inc.
Ingram Micro
"Ingram Micro is very excited about the announcement of
MySQL's new MECA partner program and feels that it will
provide our VARs with the next level of engagement with MySQL. The
additional MySQL support services, innovative sales and marketing
programs and discounts on training will help our
partners’ sales success."
-- Diane Lees, senior category manager, software, Ingram Micro
JasperSoft
“JasperSoft and MySQL are already strong partners
working closely to provide ISVs, OEMs and end users with an
advanced, integrated business intelligence solution. As a
MySQL OEM partner for operational reporting and business
intelligence, we’re committed to giving the MySQL
community an integrated way to quickly and easily extract more
value out of business data. Our participation in MECA
will help accelerate adoption of low-cost, easy-to-implement BI
functionality.”
-- Paul Doscher, CEO, JasperSoft
Logicworks
"MySQL is an integral component to our Managed Database
Service and business-critical application hosting
services. Our customers benefit from our alliance with
MySQL through the MECA partner program, as they can be assured that
Logicworks services are consistently optimized to take advantage of
MySQL Enterprise software -- the most reliable, secure and
up-to-date version of the world's most popular open source
database."
-- Carter Burden, president & CEO, Logicworks
NetApp
“NetApp is proud to be one of the first members of
MySQL's new MECA partner program. Customers who
choose to run MySQL Enterprise in conjunction with NetApp storage
systems will benefit from our ability to deliver cost effective,
innovative solutions that simplify their data management
needs. Our participation in MECA underscores our
commitment to providing storage solutions for the growing MySQL
community."
-- Patrick Rogers, vice president, Solutions Marketing, Network
Appliance
NitroSecurity
“As a MySQL partner, NitroSecurity is committed to
delivering high performance storage engine technology to MySQL
customers worldwide. NitroSecurity developed its database
technology to specifically address the growing demand for real-time
analysis within the network security event management
market. The MECA partner program strengthens the MySQL
ecosystem and enables businesses to confidently deploy NitroEDB for
MySQL in their mission critical data infrastructures.”
-- Frank Hayes, senior vice president of marketing, NitroSecurity
Oracle/Innobase
"Oracle is delighted to be a Platinum member of the MySQL
Enterprise Connection Alliance and we are pleased to continue the
strategic and longtime relationship started by Innobase. The
combination of MySQL Enterprise with the InnoDB storage engine
continues to provide a strong transactional foundation for modern
online applications, and the new program will help boost the
companies' combined products in the marketplace."
-- Ken Jacobs, Vice President, Product Strategy, Server
Technologies Division, Oracle Corporation
Pentaho
"Our customers continue to show strong adoption of MySQL
as a data warehousing platform. The MECA partner program is a great
opportunity for us to continue to integrate and optimize the use of
Pentaho with the MySQL database -- allowing us to jointly address
the clear market need for open, integrated, and affordable BI and
data warehousing solutions."
-- Lance Walter, vice president of Marketing, Pentaho
PremiumSoft
"As a leading MySQL management and development software
provider, PremiumSoft is very excited about participating in
MySQL's new MECA partner program. Our Navicat product
features an easy-to-use, intuitive interface and provides a robust
toolset to simplify MySQL development and improve productivity. The
MECA program can help connect us with the MySQL community and give
our customers the confidence that Navicat is optimized to work with
MySQL Enterprise."
-- Ken Lin, CTO, PremiumSoft.
Red Hat
“Red Hat is pleased to support MySQL's new MECA
partner program and to offer customers a reliable choice for their
database needs. MySQL AB has also recently become a Red Hat
Exchange Member. Through the alignment of our two
organizations, customers can feel confident deploying a complete,
certified solution.”
-- Todd Barr, director of Marketing, Red Hat
RippleTech
“MySQL provides a powerful database for organizations,
both powerhouses and pioneers, to realize the benefits of open
source initiatives. High-transaction industries such as ecommerce,
telecom and financial services also need to continuously monitor
access to critical data without compromising performance and
customer service. Being an inaugural MECA partner helps us to
continue to provide our MySQL customers with a powerful solution
that effectively monitors their database applications, auditing and
logging entire database user sessions, without any performance
impact.”
-- David Lamb, VP of Strategic Business Alliances, RippleTech
Solid
"Solid is pleased to be among the first members of
MySQL's MECA partner program and for the opportunities that
it will bring to both Solid and the MySQL community.
Organizations are already realizing the value that solidDB for
MySQL can bring to their mission-critical applications, and the
benefits introduced by the MECA program will help increase that
adoption."
-- Paola Lubet, vice president, marketing, Solid Information
Technology
SugarCRM
"Everyone knows MySQL is a great database solution for a
wide range of enterprises, small and large. This is why
we're excited to join MECA. Partnering insures
the highest quality solutions for SugarCRM's customers.
Sugar users always have a choice, but if they are using MySQL,
Sugar is fully optimized to work with MySQL Enterprise, no
questions asked. We are committed to integrating SugarCRM
with the large and strong MySQL user base."
-- John Roberts, CEO, SugarCRM
Sun Microsystems
"The Solaris operating system is the most popular UNIX
platform. Sun -- a MySQL Platinum partner -- has teamed
with MySQL to achieve outstanding MySQL database performance
results. With Sun open sourcing our technologies and our move to
build an x86 systems business, we see our continued alliance
through MySQL's new MECA partner program helping us deliver
continued value to customers via decreased cost of ownership and
increased performance."
-- Juan Carlos Soto, vice president, Marketing, Sun Microsystems,
Inc.
Talend
"Together with MySQL, we are working to change the
economics associated with storing, managing and integrating data by
delivering open source data infrastructure solutions to
organizations of all sizes. As one of the first members
of MySQL's new MECA partner program, we are committed to
providing MySQL customers with a flexible and cost effective open
source data integration alternative to the traditional proprietary
data integration suites."
-- Bertrand Diard, CEO, Talend
Tandem-Forum
"As the first MySQL authorized training center in Russia,
we are excited to join the new MySQL MECA partner
program. Partnering with MySQL to present specialized
training allows us to provide a unique offering to our
clients. MySQL has been easy to work with and all their
team members respond quickly and readily to our needs."
-- Gregorio Rubtsov, AMEC Manager, Tandem-Forum
Unisys
"As a systems integrator with singular expertise in
mission-critical environments, Unisys can draw on proven solution
skills to drive higher service levels for MySQL users.
Unisys is pleased to be one of the first members of
MySQL’s MECA partner program. We are excited by the
opportunities it provides for us to deliver innovative solutions to
an extended group of MySQL Enterprise users.”
-- Anthony Gold, vice president and general manager, Open Source
Business, Unisys
Webyog
"The MySQL database is rapidly becoming the de-facto
choice for traditional enterprises as well as pioneering Web 2.0
companies. Webyog has been delivering powerful tools exclusively on
the MySQL platform for the last five years. Our participation in
MECA underlines our commitment to work closely with MySQL AB to
deliver the next generation of MySQL tools".
-- Rohit Nadhani, CEO, Webyog
Zmanda
"Zmanda offers powerful network backup and recovery
software designed specifically for MySQL databases, extending the
benefits of open source to an organization's core
operations. Through our partnership with MySQL in its new MECA
partner program, we can contribute to the strong momentum of the
MySQL ecosystem and drive the adoption of open source software more
broadly in the enterprise. We are proud to be a top-level Diamond
sponsor of the MySQL Conference & Expo this year and look
forward to continuing our partnership with MySQL through the MECA
program."
-- Chander Kant, CEO, Zmanda
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, The Associated Press,
Suzuki and NASA.
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.
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