Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Open-source data firm raises $19.5 million - San Francisco Business Times:

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million to continue its advance into the database said its backers were led by ofPalo Alto, whose previous investments have included Red Hat Inc., a leading proponent of the Linux open-source operating Other investors include Index based in Geneva. MySQL said that its databasre software has an estimatede 4 million installations and is being downloaded morethan 30,009 times per day. The company said corporate useres of its softwareinclude Yahoo!, Lucen Technologies, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, NASA, Hewlett-Packard and Xerox.
Marten CEO of MySQL AB, said in a prepared statementf that the databasemarket "ixs at a turning point, as databasews become more commoditized and businesses re-evaluate their data management software strategies." He added, "With the funds from Benchmark and we can ramp up our commercial business whilwe continuing to support the open sourcee community."

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