Friday, November 28, 2008

MySQL Server 5.1 released yesterday!

Sun Microsystems released MySQL Server 5.1.30 GA, the first 5.1 production version of the popular open source database. You can download and use it for free.

MySQL is an open source project where people are encouraged to Contribute. MySQL is in the core of the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache web server, MySQL, and PHP), it has a GPL license, and is extremely popular with about 60000 downloads a day.

MySQL is also a supported product from Sun Microsystems, paying customers will get access to support and additional tools like the new query analyzer. For example you can go to shop.mysql.com and buy "MySQL Enterprise Basic" for USD 599 and this includes MySQL Enterprise Server, MySQL Enterprise Monitor, and Production Support.

Norwegian readers can look at coverage at digi.no Største MySQL-oppdatering på tre år

2 comments:

The Polite Polar Bear said...

Michael "Monty" Widenius says this version is very buggy.

The Polite Polar Bear said...

The interesting part of Widenius post is titled "So what went wrong with MySQL 5.1 ?". It's about development processe's current practices. And it's very interesting.