Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Why MySQL Grew So Fast  Why MySQL Grew So Fast Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 20, @11:57PM from the should-be-has-grown dept. jpkunst writes "Andy Oram, who attended the MySQL Users Conference which was held April 16-18 in Orlando, Florida, attempts to explain MySQL's popularity in his weblog at oreillynet.com. (More weblogs about the 2004 MySQL Users Conference can be found at the The 2004 MySQL User's Conference & Expo Blog Collection.)"  [Slashdot] From the article: MySQL AB claims an installed base of five million systems, the largest of any database engined. The mysql.com domain sees almost as much traffic as ibm.com. Six hundred attendees flocked to the recent conference. MySQL AB has recently started, and has been heavily marketing, its own publishing outlet, MySQL Press. 1:26:07 AM    comment []  trackback []