Streamlining operations to improve profitability. Stretching resources to raise performance. Managing growth on a limited budget. Your company may be considered a small or medium-sized business (SMB), but your business pressures are just as big as any global enterprise.

As an SMB, you want to see real value before making any significant IT purchase decision - value that comes in the form of cost containment, reliability, performance, scalability and ease of deployment. And more likely than not your IT staff is resource-constrained, which means you won't be taking customer service and technical support for granted.

For SMB's, the open source option delivers a scalable, reliable and high performance platform while keeping total cost of ownership extremely low. Open source applications are infinitely flexible and highly customizable; and unlike the software-as-a-service option, open source allows you to maintain complete control of your data. And when you go with an established market leader, you'll get the stability you and your customers need and deserve.

MySQL Enterprise is a proven business-critical database application that can give you every benefit you need to safely grow and thrive in an increasingly competitive environment, including:

• Lower TCO - MySQL Enterprise delivers 90% total cost of ownership savings over proprietary alternatives like Oracle, Microsoft, and Sybase. Its ease-of-use, low-administration requirements and zero up-front licensing costs deliver major ongoing savings in operational expenses. Use this tool to calculate your estimated TCO using MySQL compared with five of the leading database products.
• Little-to-No Additional DBA Resources Needed - Using MySQL, a mid-size company can free up 25-50% of an experienced database administrator's time and improve the efficiency of development teams by 15%. Savings could easily be in the region of $50,000 in loaded salary time and $10,000 in reduced training costs. Check out the Top Reasons for DBAs and SysAdmins to Buy MySQL Enterprise for additional DBA benefits.
• Highly Scalable - The world's fastest growing organizations are using MySQL, open source software and commodity hardware to economically handle 10x annual traffic growth. MySQL provides the flexibility to add capacity on an as-needed basis, eliminating the need for huge up front investments in proprietary software and hardware.
• 24x7 Problem Resolution and Consultative Support - Get support directly from the source - from the engineers who develop MySQL Enterprise. They are ready to help you with your toughest technical questions and best-practices advice.
• Trusted, Secure, Reliable Platform From A Market Leader - MySQL has been in business for more than 10 years, developing and supporting the world's most popular open source database. With over 50,000 downloads daily, MySQL benefits from the testing and feedback of its large installed base. Proprietary vendors do not have this extensive testing and feedback loop.

MySQL Enterprise Unlimited

MySQL Enterprise Unlimited is a unique offering that enables SMB's to accelerate their open source initiatives and gain control of their software budgets by significantly reducing the cost of deploying and managing database software. Specifically, MySQL Enterprise Unlimited:

• Delivers a fixed cost solution for an entire year with no surprises, regardless of how many servers are deployed.
• Eliminates license fees required by proprietary database products such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase and IBM DB2.

With this special offer, SMB's can now deploy an unlimited number of MySQL Enterprise Servers for the price of a single CPU of Oracle Enterprise Edition! Find out more about how this cost-saving offer can give you a predictable, no risk way of deploying MySQL.

Were you aware that MySQL has become the #1 database choice for delivering online applications? MySQL powers more online applications than any other database in the world because it's easy, safe, reliable, cost-effective and very fast! MySQL is also used in many custom business applications, which provide customers with the flexibility, control, and agility unique to their operations. Check out our many third-party application partners!

MySQL has helped thousands of SMB's achieve their IT and business goals by helping to accelerate open source initiatives and reduce the cost of deploying and managing database software. Find out what we can do for your business.

Additional Resources

SMB Whitepapers

• An SMB Guide to Developing an Enterprise Open Source Strategy »
• An SMB Guide to Lower Database TCO - How the Open Source Database MySQL Reduces Costs by as Much as 90% »
• Inside MySQL 5.1: A DBA's Perspective »
• What's New: MySQL Enterprise Monitor »
• MySQL: The Best Choice for Modern Online Database Applications »

SMB Webinars

• Scale-Out & Replication Best Practices for High-Growth Businesses »
• MySQL 5.0 is Now GA: Top 10 Tips to Getting Started with MySQL 5.0 Today »
• Meeting with Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB »
• MySQL's Webinar Featuring Independent Research Analyst »