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BW: NuSphere Ships First Open Source Database Distribution

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 23, 2000

“NuSphere, a Progress Software Company, delivered its initial
shipment of NuSphere MySQL to customers today, becoming the first
packaged software product for the open source database marketplace.
NuSphere MySQL is a multi-platform, integrated distribution of
Apache, Perl, PHP and MySQL. Designed for Linux, Unix, and Windows
platforms, the packaged solution is available for $79.”

“This initial shipment supports RedHat Linux 6.2 and Windows 9x,
NT, and 2000 platforms. Additional platform support for the major
commercial UNIX will follow in later releases. NuSphere MySQL is
also available for download at www.nusphere.com.”

NuSphere is working closely with the MySQL development
community to make the 600 pages of documentation for MySQL
available in print. This initial shipment of NuSphere MySQL
contains the first ever release of the MySQL Reference in printed
form.


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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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