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LinuxPR: NuSphere Contributes Significant Code Enhancement To MySQL

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 31, 2001

“NuSphere “Checks In” New Features To Allow Commercial
Transaction Processing for No. 1 Open Source Database.”

“NuSphere Corporation, provider of NuSphere MySQL, the leading
packaged software product for the open source database marketplace,
announced today that it has formally contributed a significant code
enhancement to MySQL, providing database programmers with more
complex transactional capabilities that dramatically expand
business application possibilities for MySQL.”

“Since NuSphere formed in June 2000, its development team has
been working on “Gemini,” the company’s code name for the
development work that now adds a robust transactional storage
engine, providing row-level locking to MySQL. The release of Gemini
is being issued in accordance with the General Public License
(GPL).”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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