Unisys to distribute MySQL products and services

May 18, 2006

On May 16, Unisys has signed an agreement with open-source partner MySQL. Unisys has announced a worldwide distribution agreement with the Sweden-based open source database maker.

The deal will enable Unisys to resell MySQL premium software products and provide a wider array of consulting, integration and support services for business customers implementing the popular database in their infrastructures, Unisys said.

With this agreement in place, Unisys broadened its range of consulting, integration and support services for the MySQL product family to include MySQL Network subscriptions, MySQL Cluster and other products.

The new agreement strengthens Unisys service capabilities for open-source stacks such as LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Python/Perl), a company spokesman said.

Unisys has supplied only database consulting services for MySQL and other database systems within its portfolio during the past few years.

Most of those services consisted of providing public- and private-sector organizations with migration, high-availability architecture and design, performance optimization and tuning, administration, and management across the open-source stack, the company said.

"Unisys also has working partnerships with Red Hat, Novell [for SUSE Linux] and [application server maker] JBoss," Unisys spokesman Brian Daly told eWEEK. "This, however, is the first formal resale agreement we have made with MySQL."

MySQL claims to have more than 10 million active installations worldwide.

"Combining Unisys services with MySQL's database software can help our joint customers attain the flexibility in IT deployment and operational benefits that open source can deliver," said Ulf Sandberg, MySQL vice president of customer services.

Unisys said it will optimize MySQL for its own platforms and will conduct performance and scalability testing in cooperation with the database server's own developers.

In addition, Unisys intends to deploy a new global team of MySQL-certified consultants who can migrate, implement and optimize MySQL throughout an enterprise, the spokesman said.

These Unisys consultants will become key members of the company's planned new series of global open-source centers, where customers can benchmark and test business-critical applications employing the database in a lab environment before moving them into production.

Source: eWeek

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