Hong Kong, 15 May 2007 - PremiumSoft, the developer of the World's most popular MySQL GUI today announced it has joined the MySQL Partner Program (MECA) as a Gold Partner.

After a few inspiring years of cooperation with MySQL AB, the Gold Partner status is a recognition of the leading position of our database management tool.

 

Being a Gold Partner of MySQL, Navicat team will work closely with the MySQL community to ensure seamless compatibility between Navicat and MySQL and that Navicat will always be optimized to work with all versions of MySQL.

 

Joining the MECA program, we receive valuable training, support benefits, first hand information of innovative MySQL technologies and other benefits in the MySQL ecosystem, all these provide us with competitive advantage in the marketplace and enable us to offer the best support and quality product to million users of MySQL.

This partnership will give confidence to all new and existing Navicat users that Navicat team is committed to enhance and improve Navicat to maintains its No. 1 position in the database management software market.

About PremiumSoft

PremiumSoft is one of the worldwide leaders in providing easy-to-use and powerful Database GUIs for business professionals and individuals. PremiumSoft's flagship product, Navicat, is recognized as the most popular MySQL administration and development tool with more than 2,000,000 downloads since its release. Navicat provides a complete and sophisticated database solution to increase the productivity of developers and database administrators, as well as lowering the total cost of ownership for related applications and technologies.

About MySQL

MySQL AB develops and supports a family of high-performance, affordable database products. The company's flagship offering is 'MySQL Enterprise', a comprehensive set of production-tested software, proactive monitoring tools, and premium support services.

MySQL is the world's most popular open source database software, with over 11 million active installations. Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, business-critical systems and packaged software -- including industry leaders such as Yahoo!, Alcatel, The Associated Press, Suzuki and NASA.

With headquarters in the United States and Sweden -- and operations around the world -- MySQL AB supports both open source values and corporate customers' needs in a profitable, sustainable business model. For more information about MySQL, please visit www.mysql.com.