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07/12/2001 Archived Entry: "MYSQL COMMUNITY THREATENED BY OBSCURE .ORG WEBSITE"

Linux PR: MYSQL COMMUNITY THREATENED BY OBSCURE .ORG WEBSITE

Open source software company MySQL AB today announced that an unauthorised party has set up a website on www.mysql.ORG in direct violation of the trademark rights of MySQL AB and with the apparent goal to confuse the huge worldwide community of MySQL users.

Michael "Monty" Widenius and David Axmark, co-founders of MySQL AB and the creators of this world-leading open source database software commented "We normally welcome new sites that focus on the MySQL server, but this one violates our trademark and may lead users to wrongfully believe it represents the people behind the MySQL server. We were not contacted about this website and it operates without our authorisation. We cannot recommend anybody to visit that site."

The .org site is registered to Nusphere Corp. I smell a rat in the Nusphere camp as they try to sell their own customized version of MySQL, called Enhanced MySQL, that includes a customized table type that makes MySQL and ACID database.

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