Whether you are building and supporting commercial websites, distributing enterprise applications or engineering advanced communications networks, the technologies used to run your organization must be readily adaptable for you to remain competitive. This paper explores how you can confidently deploy
MySQL as part of an innovative and cost-effective platform ideal for delivering
internet-based applications. It examines some of the challenges associated with building and supporting scalable, data-driven online applications using, open source web 2.0 technologies and provides a detailed overview of MySQL Enterprise, which is comprised of database and monitoring software and production support services that are designed to alleviate these challenges. The MySQL Enterprise solution, backed by Enterprise-class service capabilities of Sun Microsystems, is specifically designed to mitigate risk and ensure you meet customer and end-user Service Level Agreements (SLAs).