Do you support the development of any major applications developed specifically for MySQL, for example phpMyAdmin?
We encourage our employees to keep up to date on the latest open source projects and contribute or provide guidance and feedback when they can. Of course, they are also quite busy working on MySQL 5.0. But we definitely see a lot of people using phpMyAdmin, our own MySQL Administrator, as well as various third party commercial tools such as TOAD from Quest Software or DB Artisan from Embarcadero. We realize that the more tools out there that support MySQL, the more accepted our product will be, both in the open source community and in corporate IT departments. We also have lots of discussions with other open source projects, whether it’s OpenOffice.org, Apache, JBoss, or Eclipse etc. How far has MySQL progressed since its original release to MySQL 5.0, which is coming up soon? What differentiates MySQL 5 when compared to other popular database systems? What limitations does it have as far as maximum number of records/tables goes? As I’ve said, MySQL 5.0 is in Alpha now and we have a lo
