Leading MySQL expert Paul DuBois joins NuSphere

Issued by Progress Software SA

Johannesburg, 14 Dec 2000

Enhanced open source software and commercial services company, NuSphere, has appointed popular MySQL author Paul DuBois to its team. NuSphere is the provider of NuSphere MySQL, a leading packaged software product for the open source database marketplace.

"DuBois brings to NuSphere a wealth of knowledge about MySQL," says Rick Parry, MD of Progress Software South Africa. "He is the author of MySQL, published by New Riders, which has an average customer rating of five stars at Amazon.com and has already sold almost 30 000 copies worldwide. DuBois has made substantial contributions to the official MySQL manual, MySQL Reference, and continues to update the documentation.

At NuSphere, DuBois will work closely with development to ensure that NuSphere code contributions, such as the upcoming project "Gemini," are presented to MySQL end users in an effective and compelling fashion. "DuBois brings to NuSphere a wealth of knowledge about MySQL," says Rick Parry, MD of Progress Software South Africa. "South African open source pundits will be thrilled to hear this news and we look forward to the results of his input."

Steven Feinstein, director of eLearning for NuSphere maintains developers of database-driven web sites need a comprehensive objective-based learning curriculum in order to be successful at their jobs. "We anticipate that Paul`s subject matter expertise will not only help us create that curriculum, but also make other significant contributions to the MySQL community," says Feinstein. "We`re very excited to have him on board."

In addition to his duties at NuSphere, DuBois will continue to write about MySQL. He is currently writing the MySQL Cookbook to be published by O`Reilly & Associates in the Spring of 2001 and a new book for New Riders titled MySQL and Perl for the Web, due out in July 2001. He is also the author of Software Portability with imake and Using csh & tcsh, both published by O`Reilly & Associates.

DuBois spent more than 15 years as an information-processing consultant for the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science and Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

NuSphere Corporation

NuSphere, a Progress Software Company, provides enhanced open source software and commercial services for MySQL-powered Web sites and applications. NuSphere`s products include NuSphere MySQL, an enhanced distribution of the most popular open source database-MySQL. NuSphere will provide commercial software services including technical support, consulting and training for MySQL. NuSphere is a partner working with the primary MySQL developers to promote the development and deployment of MySQL around the world, and provides funding for development resources dedicated to expanding the capabilities of MySQL. NuSphere`s partnership ensures that our customers have the best source for MySQL software and services.

For more information, visit www.nusphere.com or call +1-781-280-4600.

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Progress Software SA

Progress Software South Africa is a supplier of software products for e-business applications and is the official South African presence of Progress Software Corporation.

Progress Software Corporation is a global supplier of software products and services for developing, deploying and managing business applications moving to the Internet. It offers messaging servers, application servers, databases, and application development and management products. Its partners include more than 2,000 application service providers (ASPs) and independent software vendors (ISVs) who supply annually over $5 billion in Progress-based applications and related services. Progress products are used by over 10,000 organisations across 100 countries worldwide, including 60% of Fortune 100 companies.

For more information, visit www.progress.com.