Gov't GSA Office goes MySQL

comforteagle writes "MySQL has won a five year contract with the US General Services Administration office putting it in yet another government office on top of NASA, the Dept. of Def., Los Alamos National Labs & the Census Bureau. This additional win allows around 70 Government customers to purchase and deploy MySQL."

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GSA is not just another office

[hedronist]

GSA is not just another gov't office. Once you are on the GSA Schedule, then many other government offices and agencies can simply buy your product without any additional paperwork. This means that the on-ramp to MySQL just got *much* easier for many groups in the U.S. govenment.

To quote: "With the GSA contract, GS-35F-0131R Schedule 70, government customers will be able to purchase and deploy MySQL through Carahsoft Technology Corp. The GSA schedule is effective Dec. 20, 2005 through Nov. 19, 2009."

See the magic words "GSA Schedule?" This is a Very Good Thing(tm).

Just goes to show how xenophobic the US govt. is

[Netsnipe]

Choosing to go with a database that doesn't support foreign keys.

Re:Is MySQL really the right choice?

[Jamesday]

How does a site handling 6,000 page views per second, around a billion queries per day on five database servers and in the top 40 sites in the world according to Alexa.com sound?

Or how does Google's main revenue source or Travelocity's booking system or big chunks of Yahoo or... do I really need to continue with more examples of massive web traffic using MySQL?

Site design can be screwed up. It can also be done right. People regularly do it both ways. The database server usually isn't the reason. The people using it are.

You've gotta hand it to 'em

[brogdon]

After years of exhaustive, painstaking, and expensive study, our government has finally devised a method to buy something that's free.

I hope it at least comes with a $600 wrench or something...