Embarcadero ® Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: EMBT), a leading provider of strategic data management solutions , today announced it will reinforce its commitment to the MySQL developer community by offering a MySQL Bundle Promotion that coincides with the company’s participation in the MySQL Users Conference 2006, held this year at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California, from April 24 through the 27. Glen Hawkins, head of Data Integration Solutions at Embarcadero Technologies, will engage conference attendees in a discussion focused on migrating data into MySQL on Wednesday, April 26.

Recognized at last year’s event as the MySQL AB “Partner of the Year” for its critical role in driving widespread adoption of MySQL Network and enabling support for MySQL Network across their strategic data management solutions, this year Embarcadero continues its commitment to bringing dramatic cost savings, performance and reliability to MySQL users by offering a bundle of its three key products supporting MySQL for $9,995 The bundle includes:

• DBArtisan, the leading cross-platform database administration solution that helps database administrators maximize availability, performance and security, and boosts productivity so existing staff can manage more databases.
• ER/Studio, a model-driven data architecture and database design solution that helps companies discover, document and reuse data assets with round-trip database analysis, design and implementation support.
• DT/Studio, a cost-effective, scalable and easily extensible ETL (Extraction, Transformation, Loading) solution that helps organizations rapidly consolidate data from many disparate systems into consistent, accurate information that can be trusted.

The Embarcadero MySQL Product Bundle helps users to streamline the MySQL migration process. It allows users migrating from any database to MySQL the ability to analyze their data sources prior to migrating data. As a result, they can identify problems early on and significantly reducing the overall migration effort thus paving the way for a successful migration. The MySQL Product Bundle enables users to handle data type conflicts, data quality issues, and many other potential migration pitfalls as part of their overall migration projects.

About the Presentation: “I Just Want to Get My Data from X Database into MySQL!”

Glen Hawkins will address the audience with a presentation entitled “I Just Want to Get My Data from X Database into MySQL!” on Wednesday, April 26 th from 11:50 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Ballroom G of the Santa Clara Convention Center.

Glenn will focus his presentation on mapping out the shortest path to a successful data migration to MySQL from any major database platform, regardless of how large or complex that migration may be. He will cover steps to ensure that the MySQL system is accurate, complete and easily administered.

Visit Embarcadero Technologies at the MySQL Users Conference 2006 at BOOTH 616 inside the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara California April 24 through 26.

About Glen Hawkins

Glen Hawkins has over a decade of experience in the development of data and application technologies and products. He oversees the development and execution of Embarcadero's data integration strategies. Prior to joining Embarcadero, he served as a Lead Architect at Lutris Technologies for various open source projects involving the Enhydra Application Server. He is considered an expert in data integration technologies and is the co-creator of the Model Driven Data Integration (MDDI) ETL strategy. He received his BS in Engineering at Humboldt State University and is a frequent speaker at data integration conferences across the U.S.