MySQL AB Appoints Veteran Marketing Executive to Fuel Enterprise Growth

18 November 2003

MySQL AB, developer of the world\
s most popular open source database, today announced that Zack Urlocker has joined the MySQL AB management team as vice president of marketing. In this role, Mr. Urlocker will oversee MySQL AB global corporate and product marketing as the company continues its expansion into the corporate enterprise market.

Mr. Urlocker is an accomplished marketer with more than 15 years\
enterprise software experience. Prior to joining MySQL AB, he served as vice president of marketing at M7 Corporation, where he managed M7\
s worldwide marketing and business development strategy. Mr. Urlocker was also vice president of marketing at Active Software, where he helped the company achieve a successful IPO and profitability. He continued as vice president of marketing when the company was acquired by webMethods, and was responsible for unifying enterprise and B2B integration products into an end-to-end suite. Mr. Urlocker also held executive marketing and product management positions at Borland International.

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MySQL\
s reputation as a high performance, reliable database has spread quickly, and we are now ready to extend our reach further into the enterprise market,\
said M. Mickos, MySQL AB CEO. \
With Zack\
s strong enterprise software background and demonstrated ability to grow business in new markets, he will be instrumental in helping MySQL accelerate into its next stage of growth.\

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MySQL has become the de facto database for millions of developers,\
said Urlocker. \
I am excited to join the team whose vision and execution are redefining the database industry. The market is ready for an enterprise class open source database that will enable IT organizations to dramatically improve their operations at a much lower cost.\

Mr. Urlocker, holds a Master\
s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada and a Bachelor\
s Degree from Concordia University, Canada.

About MySQL

MySQL AB develops, markets and supports the MySQL database server, the world\
s most popular open source database. With an estimated 4 million installations and over 35,000 downloads per day, MySQL is quickly becoming the core of many high-volume, business-critical applications. Major corporations such as Yahoo!, Lucent Technologies, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, Motorola, NASA, HP, Xerox and Cisco rely on the ultra-fast, highly-reliable MySQL database. MySQL is available under the free software/open source GNU general public license (GPL) or a non-GPL commercial license. For more information about MySQL, please go to www.mysql.com.

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