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ISVs and OEMs have to be demanding customers. An embedded or bundled database is a part of your product, which is the source of your revenue. Choosing the wrong database can render your product uncompetitive, whether from the database's lack of functionality and performance, or from high license fees and complexity. Unfortunately, that's what ISVs / OEMs often must choose between: a database that is low cost but limiting, or one that is highly capable but high cost. MySQL is the exception: over 2000 ISVs and OEMs have chosen to make MySQL an integral part of their products because it is:
- Cost-effective, reducing costs by 90% over proprietary databases with features that ensure a product's COGS remain low throughout its lifecycle;
- High Performing and Scalable to meet the requirements of the most demanding applications, such as Telco and Network management, 24x7;
- Flexible with support for 20+ platforms providing the freedom to ship products on multiple hardware and operating system combinations;
- Easy-to-Use with fast installation, configuration and integration so developers can focus on application development, reducing time to benefit; and zero-administration, eliminating the need for customers to hire a dedicated DBA.
See what ISV / OEM customers have to say about MySQL by scrolling down or clicking on the MySQL characteristics, above. Or, get more details from more customers in their case studies »
Cost-effective
"MySQL allowed us to focus on designing a solution that would meet customer needs rather than how to minimize database licensing costs. NetQoS reduced its database costs by several thousand dollars per network appliance while also meeting the high-performance requirements of enterprise networks."
- Ben Haley, Senior Product Architect
NetQoS
"Using MySQL enabled us to deliver a cost-effective network analysis solutions that works out of the box and resulted in NetIntercept earning the Best Value Award from Computerworld's Security Pipeline. Also, only MySQL provides the performance to meet the high volume demands or our enterprise customers."
- Jans Van Bokkelen, President
Sandstorm Enterprises, Inc.
High Performing and Scalable
RightNow has tripled its traffic and now manages over 30TB of data – all stored in MySQL. And, with MySQL, we are able to handle 17 billion queries and 500 million page turns per month. We also use thousands of database schemas, all from different customers running dynamically generated SQL based on customer design.
- Laef Olson, CIO
RightNow Technologies
"Transaction speed was the most important factor for us in choosing MySQL. Our agents analyze 3000 transactions per second on average and at least three times that during business hours. We needed MySQL's extremely low overhead to achieve that performance. Many of the other databases don't even have this embedded option."
- Jonas Gyllensvaan, CEO, CTO and Founder
CONCEVIUM
Flexible
"MySQL reduces overall cost of ownership as it is not dependent on one platform or stack. This gives our customers choice in how they use their products in relation to operating systems and other applications."
- Klaus-Michael Vogelberg, CTO
Sage Group, plc.
"Had we chosen a proprietary database, we would have been limited to the platform on which the product is available. Here we have complete freedom to support the platform of our choice."
- John Moss, CEO
S2 Security Corporation
Easy-to-Use
"We were able to get the basic database structure up-and-running and migrated from our prior database to MySQL in just a few weeks. Normally, this process would have taken many months."
- Glen Hamilton, Senior Director of Engineering
LeapFrog SchoolHouse
"MySQL's low administrative requirements allowed Scholastic to ship products that work out of the box and don't require school districts to hire high-cost, dedicated DBAs."
- Scholastic