MySQL™: The World’s Most Popular Open Source Database 146 MySQL has grown from the roots • A significant portion of all large companies use MySQL somewhere • Only in some of them, the management knows it • Some of them become customers of MySQL AB • Companies that publicly acknowledge using MySQL: – Ericsson, NASA, Yahoo! Finance, Silicon Graphics, Slashdot.org, Texas Instruments, US Census Bureau, Virage, Silicon Storage Technology, Lucent, Motorola, HP, Xerox, mobile.de, handy.de – Search for "Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL“ in Google – among the 90,000+ results you will find a few others who use MySQL Copyright 2003 MySQL AB