eBay Subsidiary Marktplaats.nl Grows Its Business with Sun
Microsystems' MySQL Database
Disruptive New Unlimited Subscription Offering Allows Companies to
Monitor & Support All their MySQL Database Servers for One Low Price
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) July 16, 2008 --
Marktplaats.nl, the largest E-commerce platform in The Netherlands, and
part of eBay since 2004, is growing its business on Sun Microsystems'
MySQL Enterprise(TM) Unlimited database subscription offering. To enable
their fast growth, protect site uptime, and contain IT expenses, the
company is using a flexible and scalable infrastructure based on open
source technology such as MySQL(TM) – backed
by Sun's 24x7 global database support team.
While the Marktplaats.nl founders had great ambitions for their business
when they started out in 1999, they were also very much
budget-constrained. They needed an infrastructure that offered the
potential to scale both technically and cost-effectively to support
future growth.
The MySQL Enterprise Solution
To meet the challenges of starting a flexible online service with a low
operational budget, Marktplaats.nl's founders selected the popular open
source LAMP software stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python).
MySQL proved to be of great value to support the fast growth of their
web site, thanks to its superior reliability, performance and ease of
use. The team could, in a very short timeframe, get new database servers
up-and-running and upgrade and maintain existing ones.
"Scalability is absolutely key for us," said Bas Anneveld, Site
Operations Manager for Marktplaats.nl. "MySQL is a perfect database for
fast-growing businesses that need to scale their infrastructure quickly
and cost-effectively to keep up with the demands."
While Markplaats.nl initially relied on the MySQL Community Edition and
on self-support from the MySQL community, it soon reached a level where
timely support at all times had to be guaranteed. It then subscribed to
the MySQL Enterprise Unlimited offering, allowing the company to receive
MySQL software updates, monitoring tools and technical support for an
unlimited number of database servers, for a low annual cost.
"Sun's MySQL Enterprise Unlimited offering is designed to make it
simpler and more cost-effective for organizations to develop, deploy and
manage their critical MySQL database applications," said Richard Mason,
vice president of MySQL sales, EMEA, Sun Microsystems. "For the same
price of a single CPU of Oracle Enterprise Edition (EUR 32,000,
GBP 24,000, US $40,000), companies can deploy and automatically monitor
an unlimited number of MySQL Enterprise Servers -- with full 24x7
production support."
Visit http://www.mysql.com/unlimited
for eligibility and details.
About Marktplaats.nl
Marktplaats.nl was founded in 1999 as one of the first Dutch websites
fully focusing on classified advertising at the time. Since its
inception, marktplaats.nl has grown to become the number one website in
its field in The Netherlands. Marktplaats.nl brings together supply and
demand in both second hand and new products. Every day more than 240.000
new advertisements are placed on the site, which is used by more than 6
million unique visitors per month. Product advertisements vary from
clothing and collector's items to cars and home equipment. Markplaats.nl
was acquired by eBay in 2004.
About Sun's MySQL Database
MySQL is the most popular open source database software in the world.
Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL
to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, critical
business systems, and packaged software. At http://www.mysql.com,
Sun provides corporate users with commercial subscriptions and services,
and actively supports the large MySQL open source developer community.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA) develops the technologies that power the
global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the
Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation,
community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in
more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, MySQL, MySQL Enterprise, and
The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Sun.
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