Actuate Corporation is a provider of software for developing Enterprise Reporting Applications that improve corporate performance in the areas of financial management, sales management, customer self-service. Actuate provides the most effective platform for retrieving business information from corporate databases and delivering it as interactive web pages and Excel spreadsheets.

Alfresco's open source enterprise content repository and portlets; built by the team that includes the co-founder/author of Documentum. Alfresco’s modular architecture uses the latest open source Java technologies: Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, MyFaces and groundbreaking Common Internet File System (CIFS) interface for Microsoft file system compatibility, enabling content contribution and scalability.

Alpha Software’s flagship product, Alpha Five - the winner of PC Magazine Editors Choice and CRN's Development Package of the Year 2005, is a break-through Rapid Application Development tool for building web applications using MySQL in about 10% of the time versus programming using languages like PHP. Alpha Five provides developers the option of using visual point and click tools for ease-of-use and speed of development, along with a robust programming language - XBasic for power, flexibility and control. Alpha Five is designed for both Power Users and Professional Developers.

Arkeia Software, provides powerful, innovative data protection software for networked storage. Delivering the deepest and broadest support for Linux and open systems, Arkeia Software protects more than 100,000 networks for 5,000 customers in 50 countries. The award-winning Arkeia Network Backup, Arkeia Smart Backup, and Arkeia Options for bare-metal disaster recovery and hot backup of applications and databases are delivered through a global network of distributors and value-added reseller partners.

BakBone Software is a leading international data protection solution provider that develops and distributes heterogeneous data backup, restore, disaster recovery, replication and storage reporting software for network storage and open-systems environments. BakBone delivers scalable solutions that address the complex demands of large enterprise environments, as well as small- to medium-sized businesses. Founded in 2000, BakBone products are used by Fortune 1000 corporations and domestic and international government entities. Distributed through a select global network of strategic partners, resellers and solution providers, interested companies can learn more information about BakBone's products and services and its newly introduced IDP vision by visiting our website or emailing info@bakbone.com.

BitRock provides ready-to-bundle, customized stacks of open source components. The stacks are packaged with BitRock’s InstallBuilder Multiplatform installation tool, offering end users an easy to install package that runs out of the box. BitRock delivers a great end-user experience while reducing support costs.

Business Objects, the makers of Crystal Reports®, is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company. Business Objects and MySQL have partnered to offer several bundled offerings for reporting and data integration for the MySQL database through MySQL Network. The new bundles include Crystal Reports®, for presentation-quality reporting, and Business Objects Data Integrator, for enterprise-class data integration, and are tested, certified, and supported jointly by Business Objects and MySQL. The fully-featured, seamlessly integrated solutions enable customers to access MySQL databases to achieve unmatched visibility into their key business information, and meet the challenge of improving their return on corporate information.

Cleversafe is an open source project to store the world's data. Unique information dispersal algorithms store small slices of data in multiple, disparate locations. Each slice is individually unusable, yet any majority of the slices can perfectly recreate all of the original data. The result is a pioneering new technology for data storage superior in security, privacy, reliability and scalability. The initial resources for this project were provided by Cleversafe (www.cleversafe.com) LLC which will offer services using this technology.

Continuent ensures business continuity for the enterprise. With flexible solutions that deliver data availability and scalability, Continuent guarantees your peace of mind and lets you focus on running a successful business. Through the use of database virtualization technology, Continuent solutions work with all major databases and even support heterogeneous database environments.

Founded in 1998, Covalent Technologies is the most trusted source for complete enterprise open source solutions. The leading provider of products and services for the Apache Tomcat Application Server, Apache Axis Web Services Framework, Apache Geronimo Application Server, and Apache HTTP, the world's leading Web server, Covalent is one of the few sources for full commercial support for Apache, Tomcat, Axis and Geronimo on a global basis. Covalent has been the trusted source that Fortune 1000 enterprises rely on when migrating to open source and when deploying new open source initiatives.

DataDirect Technologies is the software industry’s only comprehensive provider of software for connecting the world’s most critical business applications to data and services, running on any platform, using proven and emerging standards. Developers worldwide depend on DataDirect® products to connect their applications to an unparalleled range of data sources using standards-based interfaces such as ODBC, JDBC and ADO.NET, XQuery and SOAP. More than 300 leading independent software vendors and thousands of enterprises rely on DataDirect Technologies to simplify and streamline data connectivity for distributed systems and to reduce the complexity of mainframe integration. DataDirect Technologies is an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS).

Dell Inc. (Nasdaq: DELL) is a premier provider of products and services required for customers worldwide to build their information-technology and Internet infrastructures. Revenue for the last four quarters totaled $56 billion and the company employs approximately 65,200 team members around the globe. Dell, through its direct business model, designs, manufactures and customizes products and services to customer requirements, and offers an extensive selection of software and peripherals.

Dolphin Interconnect Solutions provides high-performance interconnect products. The adapter cards provide a direct link from a processor to remote memory in a multiprocessor system. Dolphin technology enables very low overhead, extremely low latency and high throughput communication. The record-breaking socket library plugs seamlessly into MySQL Cluster and significantly improves performance and scalability.

Embarcadero Technologies - 2005 MySQL Partner of the Year is a leading provider of strategic data management solutions that help companies to improve the availability, integrity, accessibility, and security of corporate data. Nearly 12,000 customers, including 97 of the Fortune 100, rely on Embarcadero’s solutions to help them meet the challenges of explosive data growth, escalating data security requirements, and complex, multi-platform environments.

EMC Centera is the world’s first Content Addressed Storage (CAS) solution and the world’s leading on-line archival storage media. Centera is purpose-built to address the unique information storage requirements of long-lasting, unchanging digital objects—or fixed content —such as check and medical images, enterprise content, e-mail, and more. Centera resolves two major challenges that have prevented organizations from bringing fixed content on-line – the increasing volume of fixed content and the cost and complexity of managing it. The Centera solution is self-configuring, self-healing and self-managing to deliver cost effective on-line access to fixed content assets with assured content authenticity.

FiveRuns is creating a new breed of systems management solution-a simple, straightforward, open-source answer for monitoring, analyzing, reporting and predicting. Most management software is too complex and difficult to use. We believe that less software can do more, act smarter, and provide an incredible user experience.

Four J's develops, markets and sells the Genero product suite – a development and deployment environment purpose built for the creation of highly scalable, mission critical, transaction oriented business applications. Genero improves programmer productivity by enabling the rapid and predictable development and deployment of business logic across a variety of server, database and operating systems. Genero comes with Genero Studio, an easy to use, yet highly sophisticated Integrated Development Environment, perfectly suited for mission critical applications.

GoldenGate Software, Inc. is the leader in Transactional Data Management (TDM) solutions which guarantee data transactions are captured, routed, transformed, delivered, and verified across heterogeneous business systems in real time. GoldenGate’s real-time solutions for large enterprises worldwide include: high availability, disaster tolerance, data integration and real-time data warehousing.

Google is a global technology leader focused on improving the way people connect with information. Google's innovations in web search and advertising have made its website a top Internet destination and its brand one of the most recognized in the world. Google maintains the world's largest online index of websites and other content, and Google makes this information freely available to anyone with an Internet connection. Google's automated search technology helps people obtain nearly instant access to relevant information from its vast online index.

HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing.

High-Availability.Com are the most experienced developer and provider of High Availability products around, having supplied and supported the extensively deployed and well proven RSF-1 product protecting mission-critical Unix and Linux enterprise customers for over 10 years. RSF-1 supports both shared-storage and replicated MySQL environments providing the highest level of database availability.

IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. Linux on System p(TM) provides a business-critical database capable platform for MySQL clients, offering reliability and high-end features such as virtualization, and jaw-dropping performance.

Information Edge is a global provider of data warehousing analytics (TeraSolve) and industry specific Business Intelligence applications. TeraSolve is a powerful enterprise grade analytical engine that sits within the MySQL environment. TeraSolve focus's on the analytical and reporting needs of the enterprise by providing superior scalability, low TCO and also draws on the reliability and storage strengths of MySQL. Information Edge will be launching TeraSolve into the US market at the event and can be downloaded free from the company website.

Intellicus’ suite of singular reporting & analytical tools are designed and developed to run on all commercial and open-source platforms. Intellicus Dashboards, AdHoc and Standard reporting tools have been seamlessly embedded in many applications built for the LAMP platform providing SOX and HIPAA compliant reporting to domains including financial, mobile, banking, security, healthcare, interactive gaming etc.

Based in San Francisco, JasperSoft is the leading provider of commercial open source reporting solutions. Anchored by the world’s most popular open source reporting engine JasperReports, and its complimentary commercial reporting products JasperDecisions, JasperSoft brings customers the best of the open source and commercial software. More than 10,000 companies in over 50 countries currently use JasperSoft in their operations. Delivering broad deployment and lower cost of ownership to customers worldwide, JasperSoft customers have the benefits of solutions that are backed by a community and supported by a company.

Jitterbit is open source business integration software that supports major document types and protocols, including XML, Web Services, popular databases, and more. Using Jitterbit, users can define their source and target systems, transform data using drag-and-drop mapping, set schedules, create success & failure events, and track their deployed integration operations.

LogicBlaze - delivers open source SOA and integration solutions based on the ActiveMQ messaging platform and ServiceMix ESB. LogicBlaze customers use its solutions with MySQL applications to achieve a variety of objectives: increasing performance, availability, scalability, and reliability of LAMP application stacks; managing integrated enterprise applications; and SOA-enabling enterprise data services.

Logicworks (www.logicworks.net) is a managed service provider focused on complex hosting solutions for the SMB market. Our Managed Database Hosting Service offers a 100% SLA. We focus on uptime so that you can focus on your business.

Lumen Software is a world leader in browser based technologies and author of Lumenation, a LAMP+ based enterprise environment \ framework which utilizes Lumen Software's z-Windows AJAX desktop and graphical engine. The Company provides a cohesive role based environment / framework developers need to rapidly build commercial grade application utilizing lumen Software's RAD Software Application Development Suite along with numerous integrated modules that can be utilized in conjunction with Developer's offerings or as stand alone applications.

MySQL Press, Sams Publishing, Developer's Library, Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall PTR and Novell Press are all brands of Pearson Education, the world's leading computer technology publisher. MySQL Press IS the only authorized publisher for MySQL AB, creating approved guides to training on MySQL technologies and certification. http://dev.mysql.com/books/mysqlpress/

Novell, Inc., (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers Software for the Open Enterprise™. With more than 50,000 customers in 43 countries, Novell helps customers manage, simplify, secure and integrate their technology environments by leveraging best-of-breed, open standards-based software. With over 20 years of experience, more than 5,000 employees, 5,000 partners and support centers around the world, Novell helps customers gain control over their IT operating environment while reducing cost.

The OLAP4All Suite is a complete out-of-the box management information application that can be implemented off-the-shelf. OLAP4All has been very succesfull with the OLAP4All API for OEM customers. It has been designed for seamless integration within applications that require a high-performance OLAP engine.

Optaros is a consulting and systems integration firm that helps enterprises solve IT business problems by providing services and solutions that maximize the benefits of open source software. Bringing together experts in creating enterprise IT solutions and open source, Optaros plans and builds systems that provide increased value and control.

Pentaho provides a full spectrum of open source Business Intelligence (BI) products from reporting to OLAP to dashboards to data mining. Pentaho's powerful products support a wide range of business initiatives including sales analysis, customer analysis, financial reporting, predictive analytics, and KPI dashboards, and are highly customizable for customers‚ unique requirements.

Quest Software, delivers innovative products that help organizations get more performance and productivity from their applications, databases and infrastructure. Through a deep expertise in IT operations and a continued focus on what works best, Quest helps customers worldwide meet higher expectations for enterprise IT.

BAC-MySQLUsersConference >Rackspace Managed Hosting is the fastest growing managed hosting specialist and has extensive expertise in the management of LAMP-based hosting platforms. Rackspace is the only MySQL Certified Hosting Provider, a Red Hat Advanced Hosting Partner and recognized as a leader by Gartner. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com, or call 800-741-0082.

Red Hat--The Open Source Leader. What began as a better way to build software--openness, transparency, collaboration--soon shifted the balance of power in an entire industry. The revolution of choice continues. Today Red Hat is the world's most trusted provider of Linux and open source technology.

Splunk is making the world's IT data accessible, understandable and useful. From one place you can provide secure access to IT data, perform ad-hoc investigations, alert on problems and technologies and report on activities across the data center. Splunk works with all IT data from any application, operating system, device or technology regardless of source or format. Now diagnosing and resolving problems is faster and more precise.

SugarCRM is the world’s leading provider of commercial open source CRM software for companies of all sizes, improving their interaction efficiency and effectiveness when acquiring, supporting and managing customers. SugarCRM’s Sugar Suite adapts to any business environment by offering a more flexible, cost-effective alternative than proprietary applications based on the open source architecture. Natively built on the LAMP stack, SugarCRM offers on-demand, on-premise and appliance-based solutions suiting security, integration and configuration needs.

Sun Microsystems has held open systems to be the cornerstone of its business philosophy since the beginning. From desktops to supercomputers, and from development tools to productivity suites, Sun is dedicated to delivering hardware and software based on open industry standards. Today, through shared technology innovation, Sun's continued commitment to Open Source is reflected in its leadership and key contributions to the many projects including OpenSolaris, OpenOffice.org, GNOME, Grid Engine, java.net, Jini, JXTA, NetBeans, and Mozilla.

The SCO Group is a leading provider of UNIX software technology for distributed, embedded and network-based systems. Customers and channel partners can now benefit from a high-0performance, low-cost, easy- to- manage solutions platform with MySQL and SCO OpenServer. The combination of MySQL Network 5.0 and SCO OpenServer 6 allows customer solutions to sclae out across distributed and networked systems environments.

Thinking Networks is the provider of TN Planning, a software for modelling adaptable Corporate Planning and Consolidation Applications that improve and accelerate the process of turning business goals into financial plans. Thinking Networks provides the leading platform for integrating planning, budgeting and consolidation in one single application.

Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. Our people combine expertise in consulting, systems integration, outsourcing, infrastructure and server technology with precision thinking and relentless execution to help clients, in more than 100 countries, quickly and efficiently achieve competitive advantage.

Webyog is the creator of SQLyog - the most popular GUI and Migration Toolkit for MySQL. SQLyog is being used by more than 500,000 users worldwide to smartly manage MySQL. SQLyog is available in Free and Enterprise editions. SQLyog provides powerful DBA and Developer tools, HTTP/SSH Tunneling tools, wizard driven Migration Toolkit, Database and Structure Sync capabilities.

Zmanda, Inc. offers open source based storage software and services. We have a unique combination of experience in enterprise storage software and open source development. Our focus on openness, simplicity and security results in significant cost reduction of deployment of Data Protection and Archiving solutions. Strong partnerships with various open source projects strengthen our ability to add functionality and provide the top-notch support expected by enterprise customers.