Virgin Mobile France launched in 2006. Its business involves purchasing, repackaging, and selling wireless services. Leveraging the Orange infrastructure, Virgin Mobile France relied on a LAMP platform (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python) to drive its business. Even though the MySQL Community Edition performed well, Virgin Mobile France began to consider its options when its number of subscribers approached 1 million.
The MySQL/Sun Technical White Paper "A Guide for Migrating from Microsoft Access to MySQL" provides insight into what is needed for considering a move from Access to MySQL and presents a number of options that help make for an easy transition. Both the business and technical sides of migrating to MySQL are covered. Both managers and seasoned technical developers, business analysts, and DBAs, will find the needed answers to questions that revolve around migrating to the world’s most popular open source database: MySQL.
Sun solutions architect Alka Gupta has assembled a helpful guide to Sun's cloud computing portfolio in her blog entitled "A Sneak Peek at Sun's Cloud Computing Offerings." She leads off, citing MySQL, Coolstack from Sun, NetBeans, and the Sun xVM portfolio.
If you are wanting to learn more about MySQL 5.1, two white papers have just been released that offer specifics on the new product. "Inside MySQL 5.1: A DBA's Perspective" offers a technical overview of MySQL and a detailed look at its new features. "MySQL Query Analyzer: Overview" describes how the Query Analyzer can be used to tune and optimize SQL code during development and then to monitor applications after they are promoted to production.
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