How MySQL Powers Web 2.0

From MySql  web site

An overview of how MySQL helps power Web 2.0 technologies and companies

Web 2.0 can be thought of as the technologies and web sites that leverage users and developers in a socially collaborative manner in order to rapidly develop data and applications with a high level of integration across platforms and other services.

MySQL enables up-and-coming Web 2.0 sites like Wikipedia, FeedBurner and digg, - as well as established web properties like Craigslist, Google and Yahoo! - to scale out and meet the ever-increasing volume of users, transactions and data.

The information presented here will be valuable to entrepreneurs about to create their own Web 2.0 business, existing web properties wishing to bring their applications to the next level, but also to the large number of enterprises interested in leveraging Web 2.0 technologies. You will also gain an understanding of how MySQL can be used in conjunction with other open source components to deliver low-cost, reliable, scalable, high performance Web 2.0 applications.

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