Recently, we celebrated SkySQL reaching its first, “half birthday” since its official launch on October 15th. It’s been an amazing half-year. While most “newborns” are still getting a feel for the lay of the land at 6 months, SkySQL is already off and running!

Keeping to the high level corporate strategy we set in place when we dreamed-up SkySQL last summer, we have worked hard to establish a presence in the MySQL™ database ecosystem and to drive awareness amongst customers/users. Our goal continues to be for SkySQL to become the first and obvious choice for affordable MySQL database solutions for the enterprise and cloud. In our first six months, we:

• Grew the company to nearly 40 employees, working out of 14 countries, ensuring that we’re able to deliver our expert MySQL database services and support wherever our customers are located;

• Extended our global reach …