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2010 | |
Best Database -- Linux Journal Reader's Choice Awards 2010 Voted by more than 12,000 readers, MySQL remains the "Best Database" selected by Linux Journal Reader's Choice Awards three years running. 29th October 2010 | |
MySQL Workbench -- The 10 best cross-platform applications Although this tool is new to the world, you will not find a better database administration tool anywhere for any platform. With this MySQL admin tool, you can work your MySQL magic on all platforms. 17th May 2010 | |
Best Open Source Database -- PC WORLD (Russia) MySQL was named among the best products of 2009 by PC World Russia. What's wrong with using a database you actually like? As the huge and active MySQL user community attests, nothing at all. MySQL's easy administration, excellent read performance, and transparent support for large text and binary objects make it the top choice for many Web sites. 12th January 2010 | |
2009 | |
Top 10 Open Source Hall of Famers InfoWorld's top picks for the most indispensable open source software of all time What's wrong with using a database you actually like? As the huge and active MySQL user community attests, nothing at all. MySQL's easy administration, excellent read performance, and transparent support for large text and binary objects make it the top choice for many Web sites. 16th August 2009 | |
LinuxQuestions.org: MySQL Database of the Year The members of http://www.LinuxQuestions.org have once again selected MySQL as their favorite database. Thanks to everyone who voted! 13th February 2009 | |
2009 Developer.com Database Tool of the Year: MySQL Workbench Nominations to find the best products and technology began in September and the submissions this year were abundant. With finalist announced in November, voting began. The voting made it very clear which products were to win. Not only were more votes received than in the last two years, but there was also a clear margin of victory between first and second place. Congratulations to the finalists and especially to all the winners. 14th January 2009 | |
2008 | |
2008 Best Open Source Software: Database "MySQL is the choice for many Web sites thanks to its excellent read performance, transparent support for large text and binary objects, and incredibly easy administration," noted the editors at InfoWorld. Further, the helpful user base, and some poster-child deployments including eBay, Yahoo, and Craigslist were taken in account. 4th August 2008 | |
2008 Windows IT Pro Community Choice Award Windows IT Pro forum visitors and several Windows user groups were asked to vote on their product preferences in seven broad technology categories. MySQL has been named the Silver Winner in the Light Database Tools category. 1st August 2008 | |
2007 | |
Best Open Source Software: Database InfoWorld's BOSSIES recognize the Best Open Source Software for business, from small offices to large enterprises. Open source software has established itself as a cornerstone of modern business computing, and the open source community is arguably the greatest driver of innovation in software today. 14th September 2007 | |
German PHP Magazin Reader's Choice 2007 The Readers of the German PHP Magazin chose MySQL as the best database management system of the year 2007. This shows again how popular MySQL is among PHP developers. 1st March 2007 | |
2006 | |
Audemars Piguet "Changing Times Award" MySQL AB has been awarded the "European Entrepreneur of the Year 2006" award at a gala dinner in Geneva. The award was the main prize handed out at the Audemars Piguet "Changing Times Award" created to recognize the European entrepreneur whose private company has had the biggest impact, on the largest number of people over the last three years. The event, which gathered over 200 VIP guests, played host to some of the most important players in today's European technology industry. Audemars Piguet, Weber Shandwick and the European Tech Tour entertained a cross-section of their most important guests from various industries such as private banking, pharmaceutical, automotive, telecommunications, Internet, private equity and local government who were all in attendance to enjoy the evening, share ideas, and show support for today's emerging entrepreneurs. 1st December 2006 | |
AlwaysOn Top 100 Private Company MySQL has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the Top 100 Private Company award winners. The company was handpicked by the AlwaysOn editorial panel based on a set of five criteria - technology innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation. The AO100 was selected from over 1,000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts. The AO100 consists of private companies at all stages of development, from early- to late-stage. 12th July 2006 | |
2006 Software Development Times 100 The 4th annual SD Times 100 recognizes the leaders and innovators of the software development industry. "The winners of this year's SD Times 100 awards have demonstrated their leadership in shaping the software development industry," said David Rubinstein, Editor-in-Chief of SD Times. "We took into account each nominee's products and services, its reputation among development managers, and the new ideas it brought out. These select individuals and organizations are the ones we've identified as helping to move the art of development forward." 1st June 2006 | |
Software Development Magazine Productivity Award For the past 15 years, the Software Development Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards have been presented annually to showcase products that have "jolted" the industry with their significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier, and more efficient. Jolt Cola, the fabled soft drink quaffed by software developers for sustenance during project development marathons, sponsors the awards presentation. MySQL 5.0 was presented a Productivity Award at a ceremony at this year's SD West 2006 conference in California and featured in the June 2006 issue of Software Development magazine. 15th March 2006 | |
LinuxQuestions.org: MySQL Database of the Year LinuxQuestions.org is a free, friendly and active Linux Community with over 150,000 members and over 1,400,000 posts. Founded in 2000 LQ offers forums, reviews, a Linux hardware compatibility list, a Linux knowledge base in wiki format, Linux tutorials, a free Linux download site and more. LQ has forums for everything from Linux Newbies to Linux in the Enterprise and has over 20 officially recognized Linux distribution forums. The Members Choice Awards allow members of the Linux community to choose their favorite products in a variety of categories including Linux Distribution of the Year, Office Suite of the Year and Web Browser of the Year. 7th March 2006 | |
2005 | |
AlwaysOn Top 100 Private Company For the second year in a row, MySQL AB has been selected as one of the industry's "Top 100 Private Companies" by the AlwaysOn editorial team — based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation. 25th July 2005 | |
CertCities 10 Hottest Certifications Earlier this year, MySQL certification was named as one of the 10 hottest for this year by certcities.com. 20th July 2005 | |
Every year, since 1996, Red Herring editors have selected the top 100 private companies whose products and services define the future of business innovation. During Red Herring's Venture Market Europe event, its editors announced that MySQL AB has been selected for the Red Herring Top 100 Europe — calling us "The IKEA of Databases". According to the magazine, "Each of the companies selected for the Red Herring 100 Europe has the potential to impact current markets - or create entirely new ones. 13th April 2005 | |
LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award: MySQL Database of the Year LinuxQuestions.org is a free, friendly and active Linux Community with over 150,000 members and over 1,400,000 posts. Founded in 2000 LQ offers forums, reviews, a Linux hardware compatibility list, a Linux knowledge base in wiki format, Linux tutorials, a free Linux download site and more. LQ has forums for everything from Linux Newbies to Linux in the Enterprise and has over 20 officially recognized Linux distribution forums. The Members Choice Awards allow members of the Linux community to choose their favorite products in a variety of categories including Linux Distribution of the Year, Office Suite of the Year and Web Browser of the Year. Winners were presented with the award at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in Boston. 24th February 2005 | |
2004 | |
Red Herring Magazine's 100 Most Innovative Companies After a long and rigorous process of evaluating more than 1,200 entries from more than 900 companies, the Red Herring editorial team has chosen MySQL AB as one of the industry's most innovative companies. This list is also published in the December 13, 2004 issue of Red Herring Magazine (http://www.redherring.com/) 10th December 2004 | |
MySQL AB #22 on the DM Review 100 The DM Review 100 constitute the top 100 companies in the business intelligence space as determined by DM Review readers. The list is determined based on the results of a product usage and vendor rating survey of the publication's readers conducted over the Web by The Gantry Group LLC. Survey respondents were presented with a questionnaire that examined more than 225 vendors in nine product categories. Respondents were also asked to rank each vendor for overall customer service and satisfaction. MySQL came in 22nd in the final top 100. 6th December 2004 | |
Linux Journal Readers' Choice Award The readers of Linux Journal have voted MySQL 'best database' for the seventh time in as many years. 1st November 2004 | |
AlwaysOn Top 100 Companies of 2004 AlwaysOn and KPMG announced the AO100 - Their list of the Top Private Companies for 2004. The two groups surveyed more than 1,000 venture investors, investment bankers, top entrepreneurs and executives, who nominated more than 700 companies to determine the AO100 winners. They selected MySQL AB as an innovator in the sector, demonstrating leadership in revenue and customer growth, and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. 10th July 2004 | |
Developer.com Product of the Year: Best DBMS or Related Technology of the Year Readers of Developer.com chose MySQL as the best product of the year in the category "DBMS or Related Technology". Winners in other categories include the 802.11g wireless standard, Xmlspy and Amazon.com web services. 22nd May 2004 | |
2004 SIIA CODiE Winner: Best Open Source Product or Service A broad panel of judges selected this year's Codie Awards finalists from a pool of over 800 nominations from more than 600 companies. MySQL was chosen as Best Open Source Product or Service. 20th May 2004 | |
SD Times selected MySQL AB as the shaker in the Database and Data Access category. Against traditional rivals and some new faces, MySQL AB was chosen for continuing to challenge the established enterprise software giants while entrenching itself into application-specific deployments. "Each year, the editors of BZ Media's SD Times 100 look for companies and influencers which set the technical and market leadership for the software development industry," said Alan Zeichick, editor-in-chief of SD Times. "When choosing the 2004 SD Times 100, we carefully considered each organization's offerings and reputation with developers, as well as the attention and conversation we've heard around the company and its products and technologies, as a sign of leadership within the industry." 15th May 2004 | |
Database of the Year, 2003 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards The Linux enthusiasts at linuxquestions.org voted for MySQL as databse of the year against closed and open source competitors 10th January 2004 | |
2003 | |
Finalist, Best Open Source Product or Service, 19th Annual Codie Awards A broad panel of judges selected this year's Codie Awards finalists from a pool of over 800 nominations from more than 600 companies. MySQL is in the running for Best Open Source Product or Service. The results will be announced at a black tie gala in May 2004. 19th December 2003 | |
2003 OSDir Editor's Choice for Best Application (Database) The editors at O'Reilly OSDir.com say "MySQL is like Starbucks. It's yummy, and there's one on every block." We will not be held accountable if you try eating or drinking MySQL to see if it really is yummy, but we appreciate their enthusiasm. 19th December 2003 | |
Reasoning, the leading provider of automated software inspection (ASI) services, concluded that the code quality of MySQL ranks higher than commercial equivalents. Specifically, Reasoning found that MySQL code quality was 6x better than that of comparable proprietary code 15th December 2003 | |
Linux Journal Readers' Choice Award The readers of Linux Journal have voted MySQL 'best database' for the sixth time in as many years. This year, over 7,500 readers visited the Linux Journal Web site and voted on their favorites in 28 categories. 15th October 2003 | |
German Linux Enterprise Reader's Choice 2003 The Linux Magazin asked their readers to select the most popular tools. The readers chose MySQL as the best product of the year in the category DBMS. 8th October 2003 | |
German PHP Magazin Reader's Choice 2003 Readers of PHP Magazin chose MySQL as the best DBMS of the year. MySQL won clearly with 83% percent of the votes. This shows how popular MySQL is among PHP developers. 8th October 2003 | |
Developer.com Product of the Year 2002 The MySQL database was named the 'Database-Related Product of the Year' by the readers of Developer.com. MySQL beat out other finalists, including Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Oracle9i, IBM's DB2 database and PostgreSQL. 'With a number of excellent products making it into the finalists - including products from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and Sybase - in 2002 it was the 'little guy' that stood out and took the honors,' noted Developer.com editors. 4th April 2003 | |
Swedish Guldmusen ('Golden Mouse') award for Swedish IT Product of the Year The Golden Mouse award is given by two of Sweden's most prominent magazines, Affärsvärlen and Computer Sweden, in cooperation with IT-företagen, Invest in Sweden Agency and Comdex Scandinavia. The Golden Mouse for Swedish IT Product of the Year is awarded to a product that is technologically advanced and has reached market success as well as received attention beyond the Swedish borders. It can be hardware, software, or a combination of both.16th January 2003 | |
2002 | |
Linux Journal Editors' Choice Award 2002 The MySQL database was selected to receive Linux Journal's Editors' Choice Award in the database category. The Linux Journal Editors' Choice Awards are well-known as the premier forum for recognizing outstanding product developments and achievements in the Linux market. The award winners are listed in the September 2002 issue of Linux Journal 1st September 2002 | |
Linux Journal Readers' Choice Award 2002 The MySQL database has won, for the fifth year in a row, the Linux Journal Readers' Choice Award in the database category. Linux Journal's annual Readers' Choice Awards allow members of the Linux community to pick their favorite products in a number of categories. Almost 6,000 Linux Journal readers visited the Linux Journal web site and voted on their top choices in 25 categories this year for the Readers' Choice awards. 6th January 2002 | |
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