MySQL™: The World’s Most Popular Open Source Database 145 MySQL Proliferation • MySQL is part of all Linux distributions • MySQL is downloaded 29 000+ times a day – >800.000 times a month or 10M times a year • We estimate some 4 million installations • Installed base on par with Oracle – more users according to iX Magazine in Germany 2002: MySQL 46%, Oracle 44% – more web pages with “MySQL” than with “Oracle” according to Google – 20% of worldwide relational database use, 0.02% of licence revenues Copyright 2003 MySQL AB