Open Magazine: MySQL Dials +99.999 For Availability

“MySQL AB, which develops and markets the Open Source database
MySQL, has had a busy year seeding more opportunities. Activities
have ranged from ushering in a new consultancy alliance to help
customers migrate their applications over to its SAP-rebranded
enterprise database, MaxDB to the launching of MySQL Cluster, its
first database clustering solution. This latter story actually
started last October, when MySQL inked a deal to acquire an
Ericsson division, Alzato.

“While the acquisition of this Stockholm-based developer of
clustering software for the telecom industry was promising, Zack
Urlocker, MySQL AB’s vice president of marketing, says the
public-relations ‘noise’ volume was specially tuned to low. ‘We did
not make a lot of noise about it at the time,’ says Urlocker. ‘Few
people had ever heard of Alzato [previously described by Ericsson
as a ‘venture.’]. We waited until we could integrate it with our
technology…”

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