"NuSphere becomes first major global company to provide commercial services for the market-leading open source MySQL database."

"Progress Software Corporation, a leading supplier of application development, deployment and management products and services, today announced the formation of NuSphere, a Progress Software Company dedicated to supporting the MySQL open source database. NuSphere is the first company supported by a major global software vendor to provide professional services for the MySQL database."

"NuSphere leverages parent company Progress Software's strong database and technical support expertise into the rapidly growing open source database marketplace. NuSphere will create NuSphere MySQL, a multi-platform integrated distribution of MySQL and related open source products. As a single, global source of integrated services for MySQL, NuSphere will provide support from three main centers in the U.S., the Netherlands and Australia. Developers, IT professionals and database administrators can visit www.nusphere.com for further information."

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