Secrets of MySQL policies and products running on Windows

Recently, Oracle held its first ever online MySQL on Windows forum. Tomas Ulin, vice president of Oracle MySQL engineering design, will unveil this forum, it also describes in detail how enterprise users and independent software developers can continue to invest in MySQL from Oracle and make it more profitable to run on Windows.

This activity will focus on the latest version of MySQL 5.5, the world's most popular open source database. It can provide performance advantages of up to 1500% when running on Windows. This activity will also detail how Oracle exceeded Microsoft SQL Server with the newly upgraded MySQL Enterprise Edition, saving as much as 90% of total cost of ownership, the Enterprise Edition currently provides a complete set of visualization tools for modeling, development, monitoring, management, and Windows-based MySQL application backup.

The Forum will detail the benefits to Windows users and independent software developers:
• With the MySQL Enterprise Edition running on the Windows platform, Oracle enables customers to significantly reduce their total cost of ownership in developing network applications, department-level applications, and embedded application software. At the same time, with the world-class 24x7 service support of Oracle, the customer can achieve higher MySQL performance, cross-platform flexibility and improve management.

• The first MySQL on Windows Online Forum will describe:
1. Why MySQL on Windows is welcomed by enterprise users and independent embedded software vendors.
2. Why is MySQL very suitable for the Windows environment? What kind of milestones will MySQL be able to run better on the Microsoft platform in the future.
3. Which visualization tools can be used to effectively develop, deploy, and manage MySQL on Windows applications.
4. How to launch MySQL high-availability key business applications based on the Windows platform.
5. Why does SonicWall, a security solution provider, choose MySQL instead of Microsoft SQL Server, and how they can successfully provide MySQL-based solutions.

"By selecting MySQL on Windows, customers can greatly reduce costs and improve cross-platform support," said Tomas Ulin, vice president of engineering design at oracle. Oracle has released major enhancements for MySQL 5.5 and MySQL Enterprise Edition, which will bring huge benefits to customers. For independent software developers and enterprise users who are creating and deploying critical network businesses and embedded application software, MySQL is an attractive alternative to Microsoft SQL Server ."

Jan Sijp, product management director of SonicWall, said: "embedding MySQL into our security products has proved to be a wise choice. By integrating with our own expertise, mySQL can help us provide customers with highly reliable key solutions. Customers will benefit from integrated and easy-to-use solutions without having to install a separate database. In addition to reducing complexity for customers, we also reduce the cost of internal development, testing and support ."