For all those fans of MySQL out there, here's another promotion tool that you can use to convince those naysayers that MySQL is right for them. MySQL has won the Linux Journal's Editors' Choice Award in the database category.

The Linux Journal Editors' Choice Awards are well-known as the premier forum for recognizing outstanding product developments and achievements in the Linux market.
"If you're one of the people who has been saying, 'I can't use MySQL because it doesn't have [feature you need here]', it's time to read up on MySQL 4.0 and try it out on a development system. Can you say, 'full support for transactions and row- level locking'? 'UNION'? 'Full text search'?

MySQL has certainly come a long way, even in just the limited time that I've been using it, and it's only going to get better. With the full team behind it and the community to help drive it forward as well...