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MySQL AB Releases MySQL 5.0

MySQL adds stored procedures in new release

MySQL AB announced today the release of MySQL 5.0, marking the most significant product upgrade in the ten year history of the company.

"We are quite proud to deliver this new version of MySQL -- as it includes the most-requested features from our users, customers and partners," said Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB.

"With their feedback, we have been able to provide important enterprise-class features while staying true to MySQL's renowned heritage of high-performance, reliability and ease-of-use."

The most exciting new features MySQL 5.0 adds stored procedures, triggers, views, cursors, information schema, XA distributed transactions and more.

The production version of MySQL 5.0 is available now for Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IBM AIX 5L and a range of other operating systems.