The founders and main developers of mySQL have formed the company, MySQL AB. The company is dedicated to the development and distribution of MySQL. MySQL AB has currently 20+ people on its payroll and is growing rapidly.

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL began as Ingres, developed at the University of California at Berkeley between 1977-1985. This code was enhanced by Relational Technologies/Ingres Corporation, producing one of the first commercially successful relational database servers. Postgre, an object-relational database server was developed at the University of California at Berkeley between 1986-1994 by a team led by Michael Stonebraker. The Postgre code was taken by Illustra and developed into a commercial product.  Two Berkeley graduate students, Jolly Chen and Andrew Yu, added SQL capabilities to Postgre, and called it Postgres95(1994-1995).  They left Berkeley, but Jolly continued maintaining Postgres95, which had an active mailing list. From 1996 development was continued predominantly by Marc G. Fournier, Thomas Lockhart,  Vadim Mikheev, and Jolly Chen who changed the name form Postgres95 to PostgreSQL.

phpMyAdmin

The first web-based interface to MySQL using PHP - MySQL-Webadmin - was developed by Peter Kuppelwieser. Upon hearing Peter no longer intended to work on this project Tobias Ratschiller decided to develop phpMyAdmin. Although some of the concepts have been borrowed, the source-code for phpMyAdmin was completely written by Tobias. As with most open source software phpMyAdmin has had many contributors.

phpShop is currently being developed by: Anders Wallenquist, Brian Andrews, Brandon Petersen, Ken Williams, Jorge Pasarell, Linus McCabe, Matt Oberpriller, Pablo Martinez, Phethsavong Prachith and Chris Coleman

phpSysInfo is the handiwork of developers Matthew Snelham, Joseph Engo and Uriah Welcome.

phpDig has been developed by French developer Antoine Bajolet.

iODBC The current version of iODBC is the product of OpenLink Software. It is based on the original iODBC created by Ke Jin.

OpenSSL

The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library. OpenSSL is based on SSLeay written by Eric A. Young and Tim J. Hudson.

OpenSSH

OpenSSH is a derivative of the original free ssh 1.2.12 release from Tatu Ylönen. Releases after this version of ssh came with restrictive licenses, halting the further development by the opensource community. Early in 1999, Björn Grönvall rediscovered this particular free release and after fixing bugs named his version OSSH. OpenBSD project members Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos, Theo de Raadt, and Dug Song wanted to include SSH with SSH 2 protocol support with their December 1999 release of OpenBSD 2.6 release. As OSSH only had support for SSH 1.3 Protocol and they had a deadline to meet, the team rapidly developed OpenSSH. Following this initial release, Damien Miller, Philip Hands, and handful of others started porting OpenSSH to Linux and various other Unix operating systems. Following the release of OpenBSD 2.6 , Markus Friedl decided to pursue SSH 2 protocol support, developing after months of hard work OpenSSH 2.0. Most of the checking of Markus' changes were done by Niels Provos and Theo de Raadt. Bob Beck is to be thanked for updating OpenSSL to a newer version.

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