MySQL Awards at the MySQL Conference & Expo

Announced this morning is this year’s MySQL award winners.

2008 MySQL Application of the Year

  • FaceBook – Social Network
  • Virgin Mobile France – Mobile Operator
  • eBay – ECommerce Site

2008 MySQL Partner of the Year

  • Zmanda
  • Microsoft
  • Computer center

2008 MySQL Community Member of the Year

Tagged with: Databases MySQL MySQL User Conferences MySQL Users Conference 2008

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