MySQL 5.0
The World’s Most Popular Open Source Database

About MySQL
MySQL AB develops and supports the MySQL database
server, the world's most popular open source database.
Over six million installations use MySQL to power highvolume
Web sites and other critical business systems —
including industry-leaders like The Associated Press,
Yahoo, NASA, Sabre Holdings and Suzuki.

MySQL is an attractive alternative to higher-cost,
more complex database technology. Its award-winning
speed, scalability and reliability make it the right
choice for corporate IT departments, Web developers
and packaged software vendors. MySQL is available
through an open source GPL licence or MySQL
Network, a comprehensive offering of certified
software and premium support services.
For more information about MySQL, please go to
www.mysql.com.

Enterprise Grade Database
MySQL 5.0 is the latest version
of the world's most popular open
source database. It gives corporate
developers, DBAs and ISVs an
array of new enterprise features
to make them more productive
developing, deploying, and
managing industrial strength
applications. MySQL 5.0 delivers
new enterprise features, including:


ACID Transactions to build
    reliable and secure businesscritical
    applications


Stored Procedures to improve
    developer productivity


Triggers to enforce complex
    business rules at the database
    level


Views to ensure sensitive
    information is not compromised


Information Schema to provide
    easy access to metadata


Distributed Transactions (XA)
    to support complex transactions
    across multiple databases in
    heterogeneous environments
MySQL combines enterprise grade
reliability and performance with
advanced SQL 2003 features,
making it the most cost-effective
database solution for your business
critical applications.

Reliability
MySQL is consistently recognized
for its high quality and reliability.
Leading organizations such as
Sabre, Yahoo!, Lufthansa, and
Cisco depend on MySQL to run
their embedded, e-commerce,
Web, and data warehousing
applications. Plus, independent
code quality inspection tests from
Coverity, Klocwork, and Reasoning
have shown that MySQL’s open
source approach results in code
quality that is up to 6x better than
proprietary software.

Security
MySQL delivers product reliability
and security your company can
depend on. Powerful user authentication
and authorization, as well
as SSH and SSL support ensure
you can protect your data assets.
service requires maintaining a
massive database that can meet
extreme performance demands,
with very high reliability.

Oracle Database
The First Database Designed for Grid Computing

With Oracle Database 10g, the first relational database designed for Grid Computing, your information is always available and secure. Oracle Database 10g lowers the cost of ownership through automated management while providing the highest possible quality of service. And with Release 2, Oracle builds on Release 1's foundation to further improve efficiencies and reduce the cost of information management. Oracle is the best choice for large enterprises, small and midsize businesses, and departments alike.

Availability and Scalability with Grid Computing
Oracle Database 10g delivers the response times your users demand and reduces your cost of downtime. And only Oracle offers non-stop availability, scalability, and low-cost clustering with Oracle Real Application Clusters, the foundation for Grid Computing.

Industry-Leading Security
Oracle Database 10g has unique security features that address requirements in the areas of privacy, regulatory compliance, and data consolidation, including row-level security, fine grained auditing, and transparent data encryption.

Lower Costs with the Self-Managing Database
Oracle automates time-consuming, error-prone administrative tasks, so DBAs can focus on strategic business objectives. Studies from the Edison Group prove Oracle Database 10g offers superior manageability and significant cost savings over IBM DB2 8.2 as well as Microsoft SQL Server 2000.

SQL Server

Business today demands a different kind of data management solution. Performance, scalability, and reliability are essential, but businesses now expect more from their key IT investments.

SQL Server 2000 exceeds dependability requirements and provides innovative capabilities that increase employee effectiveness, integrate heterogeneous IT ecosystems, and maximize capital and operating budgets. SQL Server 2000 provides the enterprise data management platform your organization needs to adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment.

With the lowest implementation and maintenance costs in the industry, SQL Server 2000 delivers rapid return on your data management investment. SQL Server 2000 supports the rapid development of enterprise-class business applications that can give your company a critical competitive advantage.

Benchmarked for scalability, speed, and performance, SQL Server 2000 is a fully enterprise-class database product, providing core support for Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Internet queries.

Easy-to-Use Business Intelligence (BI) Tools
Through rich data analysis and data mining capabilities that integrate with familiar applications such as Microsoft Office, SQL Server 2000 enables you to provide all of your employees with critical, timely business information tailored to their specific information needs. Every copy of SQL Server 2000 ships with a suite of BI services.

Self-Tuning and Management Capabilities
Revolutionary self-tuning and dynamic self-configuring features optimize database performance, while management tools automate standard activities. Graphical tools and wizards simplify setup, database design, and performance monitoring, allowing database administrators to focus on meeting strategic business needs.

Data Management Applications and Services
Unlike its competitors, SQL Server 2000 provides a powerful and comprehensive data management platform. Every software license includes extensive management and development tools, a powerful extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) tool, business intelligence and analysis services, and new capabilities such as Notification Services. The result is the best overall business value available.