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MySQL AB Licenses Hyperic IT Management Technology

Hyperic's SIGAR Cross-Platform API to be Integrated into MySQL's new Monitoring & Advisory Service

SAN FRANCISCO — October 30, 2006 — Hyperic Inc., the leader in multi-platform, open-source IT management, today announced a technology license agreement with MySQL AB, the developer of the world's most popular open source database. Under terms of the agreement, Hyperic's SIGAR (System Information Gathering and Reporter) API is being incorporated into the new monitoring and advisory component of the recently-announced MySQL Enterprise subscription offering.

Hyperic's cross-platform SIGAR API enables MySQL Enterprise to obtain low-level operating system information across a variety of different platforms — through a single interface. This serves as one important data point for monitoring and managing the health of MySQL database servers. MySQL Enterprise then acts as a "Virtual DBA", giving IT departments the ability to understand and solve potential problems before they impact critical business applications.

"Our goal with MySQL Enterprise is to make the development, deployment and administration of MySQL servers as easy as possible," said Zack Urlocker, MySQL AB's executive vice president of products. "Hyperic's SIGAR API technology allows us to provide our customers with valuable data for managing their IT systems Ñ no matter what heterogeneous combination of hardware and software they are using."

Through the Hyperic SIGAR API, MySQL Enterprise can present database administrators with operating system-level data, such as:

System memory, swap, cpu usage load average, uptime, and logins
Per-process memory, cpu consumption, credential info, state, arguments, environment, and open files
File system detection and metrics
Network interface detection, configuration info and metrics

"We are very pleased that MySQL has selected Hyperic's open source SIGAR technology to help make MySQL database applications easier and more affordable to manage," said Hyperic CEO Javier Soltero. "By selecting Hyperic, MySQL enhances its ability to support its customers' multi-platform networks. With this partnership agreement, Hyperic management technology will become the most widely-deployed open source management platform in the industry. We look forward to working with other vendors in the future."

The SIGAR API is an integral part of Hyperic HQ, the industry's most comprehensive product to allow users to manage any mixture of software stacks in productionÑwhether it's a J2EE-based stack, an open source LAMP stack, a closed source stack or, a hybrid. SIGAR makes Mix and Match Stack Management a reality.

Hyperic's multi-platform approach enables its partners to incorporate management across the widest range of environments, including commercial and open source. In addition to MySQL AB, the company has licensing agreements with JBOSS.

For more information about Hyperic SIGAR, visit: sigar.hyperic.com.

About Hyperic Inc.

Hyperic provides open source systems monitoring and management software that reduces the workload for operations teams at the world’s biggest web companies, including Microsoft, CNET Networks, hi5 Networks, Contegix, Rackspace’s Mosso, and more.

Its award-winning Hyperic HQ software auto-discovers and updates asset inventory and allows operations teams to perform cross-platform monitoring, diagnostics and control from a remote, web-based console, helping them more quickly pinpoint, correct, and prevent problems at every major layer—including hardware, networks, virtualization and applications.

Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Hyperic is a private company funded by Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital.

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