MySQL 4.1 production ready

NEW DELHI: In a recent announcement Swedish database firm MySQL AB has announced the release of 'production ready' version of its open-source business database server.

Version 4.1 offers advanced querying capabilities through subqueries, more secure client-server communication, new installation and configuration wizards for Windows and Linux, and support for international character sets and geographic data. Said an online report.

After being stamped as 'production ready' MySQL 4.1 can be considered to be reliable to handle mission-critical applications and stable enough to deploy enterprise applications.

MySQL 4.1 is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IBM AIX, etc. and can be downloaded under an open-source license from the MySQL Web site.