Added section explaining MySQL Portals on the website.

Extracted appendixes "Testimonials" and "Users" to separate files for safe keeping. Should go to web portals.

3 files changed, 510 insertions, 459 deletions

diff --git a/Docs/manual.texi b/Docs/manual.texi
index b98705edcc0..e88b6879f1c 100644
--- a/Docs/manual.texi
+++ b/Docs/manual.texi
@@ -113,8 +113,6 @@ distribution for that version.
 * Clients::                     MySQL client tools and APIs
 * Extending MySQL::             Extending MySQL
 * Problems::                    Problems
-* Users::                       MySQL Users
-* MySQL Testimonials::          MySQL Testimonials
 * Contrib::                     Contributed programs
 * Credits::                     Contributors to MySQL
 * News::                        MySQL change history
@@ -1253,6 +1251,9 @@ For questions or comments about the workings or content of the
 MySQL website (@uref{http://www.mysql.com/}),
 please send e-mail to @email{webmaster@@mysql.com}.
 
+Questions about the MySQL Portals (@uref{http://www.mysql.com/portal/})
+may be sent to @email{portals@@mysql.com}.
+
 MySQL AB has a privacy policy, which can be read at
 @uref{http://www.mysql.com/company/privacy.html}.
 For any queries regarding this policy, please e-mail
@@ -1858,10 +1859,8 @@ checklist of very demanding buyers.
 @node MySQL Information Sources, Compatibility, MySQL 4.0 In A Nutshell, Introduction
 @section MySQL Information Sources
 
-@cindex manuals, about MySQL
-@cindex books, about MySQL
-
 @menu
+* Portals::                     MySQL Portals
 * Questions::                   MySQL Mailing Lists
 * MySQL-Books::                 Books About MySQL
 * General-SQL::                 General SQL Information and Tutorials
@@ -1869,7 +1868,65 @@ checklist of very demanding buyers.
 @end menu
 
 
-@node Questions, MySQL-Books, MySQL Information Sources, MySQL Information Sources
+@node Portals, Questions, MySQL Information Sources, MySQL Information Sources
+@subsection MySQL Portals
+
+@cindex MySQL Portals
+@cindex manuals, about MySQL
+@cindex books, about MySQL
+@cindex MySQL Testimonials
+@cindex users, of MySQL
+@cindex news sites
+@cindex search engines, web
+@cindex web search engines
+@cindex online magazines
+@cindex magazines, online
+@cindex websites
+@cindex services
+@cindex PHP, websites
+@cindex consultants, list of
+@cindex web pages, miscellaneous
+
+The MySQL Portals (@uref{http://www.mysql.com/portal/}) on our
+website feature a diverse range of MySQL related information and
+links, designed to make it easy to find the things your need.
+
+You may register as a user, which will allow you to comment and
+rate any items in the portals as well as submit your own
+contributions. By registering you may also choose to receive news
+letters from categories that you select.
+
+Some of the current MySQL Portal categories:
+
+@itemize @bullet
+@item Books
+From here you can find any MySQL, or computers related books,
+comment, vote or buy them.
+
+@item Development
+This portal has links to sites that are using MySQL for various
+purposes, with a description of each site. This information can
+give you an idea of who uses MySQL and how MySQL can fulfill
+their requirements.
+Do let us know about @emph{your} site or success story too!
+ 
+@item Software 
+Here you can find and download a multitude of applications and
+wrappers that make use of MySQL.
+
+@item Distributions 
+From here you can find the various Linux distributions and other
+software packages that contain MySQL.
+
+@item Consultants 
+Here you can find information about MySQL Consultants.
+
+@item Partners 
+Here you can find all MySQL Partners.
+@end itemize
+
+
+@node Questions, MySQL-Books, Portals, MySQL Information Sources
 @subsection MySQL Mailing Lists
 
 @cindex reporting, errors
@@ -3276,12 +3333,6 @@ B-Trees: Balanced Tree Data Structures.
 A lecture about B-Trees.
 @end table
 
-There are also many Web pages that use MySQL.  @xref{Users}. 
-Send any additions to this list to @email{webmaster@@mysql.com}. We now
-require that you show a MySQL logo somewhere if you wish your 
-site to be added.  It is okay to have it on a ``used tools'' page or 
-something similar.
-
 
 @node Compatibility, TODO, MySQL Information Sources, Introduction
 @section How Standards-compatible Is MySQL?
@@ -44168,7 +44219,7 @@ You can find all information about procedures by examining the following files:
 @end itemize
 
 
-@node Problems, Users, Extending MySQL, Top
+@node Problems, Contrib, Extending MySQL, Top
 @appendix Problems and Common Errors
 
 @cindex problems, common errors
@@ -45953,452 +46004,7 @@ We plan to fix the above in 4.0.
 
 
 
-@node Users, MySQL Testimonials, Problems, Top
-@appendix MySQL Users
-
-@cindex users, of MySQL
-@cindex news sites
-
-This appendix lists users of MySQL that have given us permission
-to list them in our documentation.  It is by far not a complete list, but
-should give you a general idea of who uses MySQL and what it can
-be used for.
-
-@appendixsec General News Sites
-
-@itemize @bullet
-
-@item @uref{http://www.yahoo.com/} (Yahoo!)
-
-@item @uref{http://slashdot.org/} (Slashdot: A pro-Linux/tech news and comment/discussion site)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.linux.com/} (All about Linux)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.linuxtoday.com/} (Linuxtoday)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.32bitsonline.com/} (32Bits Online: because there's
-more than one way to compute)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.freshmeat.net/} (Freshmeat: News about new versions of computer-related stuff)
-
-@end itemize
-
-@cindex search engines, web
-@cindex web search engines
-@appendixsec Web Search Engines
-
-@itemize @bullet
-
-@item @uref{http://www.aaa.com.au/} (AAA Matilda Web Search)
-@item @uref{http://www.whatsnu.com/} (What's New)
-@item @uref{http://www.aladin.de/} (Aladin)
-@item @uref{http://www.columbus-finder.de/} (Columbus Finder)
-@item @uref{http://www.spider.de/} (Spider)
-@item @uref{http://www.blitzsuche.de/} (Blitzsuche)
-@item @uref{http://www.indoseek.co.id/} (Indoseek Indonesia)
-@item @uref{http://www.yaboo.dk/} (Yaboo - Yet Another BOOkmarker)
-@item @uref{http://www.ozsearch.com.au/} (OzSearch Internet Guide)
-@item @uref{http://www.splatsearch.com/} (Splat! Search)
-@item @uref{http://osdls.library.arizona.edu/} (The Open Source Digital Library System Project)
-@end itemize
-
-@appendixsec Information Search Engines Specialising in a Particular Area
-
-@itemize @bullet
-
-@item @uref{http://www.spylog.ru/} (SpyLOG ;  A very popular Web counter site)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.tucows.com/} (TuCows Network; Free Software archive)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.jobvertise.com/} (Jobvertise: Post and search for jobs)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.musicdatabase.com/} (The Music Database)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.soccersearch.com/} (Football -Soccer- search page)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.headrush.net/takedown} (TAKEDOWN - wrestling)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.lyrics.net/} (The International Lyrics Network)
-
-@item @uref{http://TheMatrix.com/~matrix/band_search.phtml} (Musicians looking for other musicians; free service)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.addall.com/AddBooks/Stores.html} (AddALL books searching and price comparison)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.herbaria.harvard.edu/Data/Gray/gray.html} (Harvard's Gray Herbarium Index of Plant Names)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.game-developer.com/} (The Game Development Search Engine)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.theinnkeeper.com/} (The Innkeeper Vacation Guides)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.macgamedatabase.com/} (The Mac Game Database uses PHP and MySQL)
-@c From: Marc Antony Vose <suzerain@suzerain.com>
-
-@item @uref{http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/publications/} (Research
-Publications at Monash University in Australia)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.ipielle.emr.it/bts/}
-(Occupational Health & Safety Website database; a project for the ECC)
-@c c.presutti@ipielle.emr.it
-
-@item @uref{http://data.mch.mcgill.ca/} (Bioinformatics databases at the
-Montreal Children's Hospital using MySQL)
-@c saeed@www.debelle.mcgill.ca
-@end itemize
-
-@cindex online magazines
-@cindex magazines, online
-@appendixsec Online Magazines
-
-@itemize @bullet
-@item @uref{http://www.spoiler.com/} (Spoiler Webzine)
-An online magazine featuring music, literature, arts, and design content.
-@item @uref{http://www.linux-magazin.de/newsflash/} (Daily news about Linux in German language)
-@item @uref{http://www.betazine.com/} (Betazine - The Ultimate Online Beta Tester's Magazine)
-@item @uref{http://www.currents.net/ccinfo/aboutcc.html} (Computer Currents Magazine)
-@end itemize
-
-@cindex websites
-@appendixsec Websites that Use MySQL as a Backend
-
-@itemize @bullet
-
-@item @uref{http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/} (NASA)
-@item @uref{http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/} (NASA KIDS)
-@item @uref{http://science.nasa.gov/} (Sience@@NASA)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.handy.de/} (handy.de)
-
-@item @uref{http://lindev.jmc.tju.edu/qwor/} (Qt Widget and Object Repository)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.samba-choro.com.br/} (Brazilian samba site; in Portuguese)
-
-@item @uref{http://pgss.iss.uw.edu.pl/en_index.ISS} (Polish General Social Survey)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.expo2000.com/} Expo2000 - world-wide distribution of
-tickets for this event is implemented using MySQL and Tcl/Tk. More than
-5000 travel agencies all over the world have access to it.
-
-@item @uref{http://www.freevote.com/} FreeVote.com is a free voting
-service with millions of users.
-
-@item @uref{http://f1.tauzero.se/} (Forza Motorsport)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.dreamhost.com/} (DreamHost Web Hosting)
-
-@end itemize
-
-@cindex services
-@appendixsec Domain/Internet/Web and Related Services
-
-@itemize @bullet
-
-@item @uref{http://www.wix.com/mysql-hosting/} (Registry of Web providers that
-support MySQL)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.yi.org/} (Dynamic DNS Services)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.dynodns.net/} (Dynamic domain name service)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.ods.org/} (Open DNS Project; free dynamic DNS service)
-
-@c @item @uref{http://dynodns.net/} (Free dynamic DNS implementation)
-@c EMAIL: A Moore <amoore@mooresystems.com>
-
-@item @uref{http://www.hn.org/} (Hammernode; Public DNS Servers)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.fdns.net/} (Free 3rd level domains)
-
-@item @uref{http://worldcommunity.com/} (Online Database)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.bigbiz.com/} (BigBiz Internet Services)
-
-@item @uref{http://virt.circle.net/} (The Virt Gazette)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.california.com/} (Global InfoNet Inc)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.webhosters.com/} (WebHosters - A Guide to WWW Providers)
-
-@item @uref{http://online.dn.ru/} (Internet information server)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.worldnetla.net/} (WorldNet Communications - An Internet Services Provider)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.netizen.com.au/} (Netizen: Australian-based Web consultancy)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.trainingpages.co.uk/} (Search site for training courses in the UK)
-
-@item @uref{http://chat.nitco.com/} (Gannon Chat; GPL. Written in Perl and Javascript)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.addurls.com/} (A general links directory)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.bookmarktracker.com/} (A Web-based bookmark management service)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.cdrom.com/} (Walnut Creek CDROM)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.wwwthreads.org/} (WWWThreads; Interactive discussion Forums)
-
-@item @uref{http://pvmon.portici.enea.it/Meteo/} (In Italian; Storage data from meteo station)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.buysell.net/} (Online "Person To Person" Auction)
-
-@item @uref{http://tips.pair.com/} (Tips on Web development)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.mailfriends.com/} (Mailfriends.com is a FREE service for
-everybody who wants to find friends over the internet)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.uninova.com/cgi-bin/wctelnets?list} (Web Page Telnet BBS List)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.uninova.com/cnc.html} (UniNova Digital Postcards)
-
-@c @item @uref{http://cabinboy.powersurfr.com/} (An Internet RFC search engine)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.dslreports.com/} (DSL-provider search with reviews)
-Made with MySQL and Modperl, all pages are generated dynamically out of
-the MySQL database
-@end itemize
-
-@cindex PHP, websites
-@appendixsec Websites that Use @code{PHP} and MySQL
-
-@itemize @bullet
-@c @item @uref{http://www.wh200th.com/} (White House 200th Anniversary site)
-
-@item @uref{http://support.jgaa.com/} (Jgaa's Internet - Official Support Site)
-
-@item @uref{http://io.incluso.com/} (Ionline - online publication) MySQL,
-PHP, Java, Web programming, DB development
-
-@item @uref{http://www.baboo.com/} (BaBoo - Browse and Bookmark. Free Web-based bookmark manager and Calendar)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.courses.pjc.cc.fl.us/Schedule/}
-(Course Schedule System at Pensacola Junior College)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.fccj.org/} (Florida Community College at Jacksonville)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.32bit.com/} (32bit.com; An extensive shareware / freeware archive)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.jokes2000.com/} (Jokes 2000)
-@c Added 990604; EMAIL: ah@dybdahl.dk
-
-@item @uref{http://www.burken.nu/}
-Burken is a webhotel that provides scripts, among other things,
-for remote users, like counters, guestbooks etc.
-@c Added 990608; EMAIL: spacedmp@SpaceDump.Burken.NU (Anders Olausson)
-
-@item @uref{http://tips.pair.com/}
-Contains tips on html, javascript, 2d/3d graphics, and PHP3/MySQL.
-All pages are generated from a database.
-@c Added 990614; EMAIL: downey@image.dk (Rune Madsen)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.softwarezrus.com/}
-Ecommerce site that is selling computers.
-@end itemize
-
-@cindex consultants, list of
-@appendixsec MySQL Consultants
-
-@itemize @bullet
-
-@item @uref{http://www.ayni.com/} (Ayni AG)
-
-@item @uref{http://worldcommunity.com/} (Online Database)
-
-@item @uref{http://www2.dataguard.no/} (DataGuard; Uses MySQL and PHP)
-
-@item @uref{http://wwits.net/programs/mysql.phtml} (WWITS; uses MySQL and PHP)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.worldcommunity.com/} (WCN - The World Community Network)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.chipcastle.com/} (Chip Castle Dot Com Inc)
-@c Added 990603 EMAIL: chip@chipcastle.com (Chip Castle)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.cyber.com.au/} (Cybersource Pty. Ltd)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.spring.de/} (Spring infotainment gmbh & co. kg)
-@c added 990905 "Oliver Pischke" <opischke@spring.de>
-
-@item @uref{http://www.wamdesign.com/} (Wam Design develops websites using MySQL)
-@c Added 990905; max@wamdesign.com
-
-@item @uref{http://www.berkeleyconsultants.com/} (Berkeley Consultants Group)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.jammconsulting.com/} (JAMM Consulting Inc)
-
-@end itemize
-
-@c Commented out by Arjen 011018, section is empty!
-@c appendixsec Programming
-
-@cindex web pages, miscellaneous
-@appendixsec Uncategorised Pages
-
-@itemize @bullet
-
-@item @uref{http://www.feature-showcase.com/htmls/demo_mysql.sql} (AZC.COM's Feature Showcase)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.teach.org.uk/subjects/trainingcourse/g.html} (Course Search)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.northerbys.com/} (Northerbys Online Auctions)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.schiphol.nl/flights/home.htm} (Amsterdam Airport Schiphol)
-
-@item @uref{http://TheMatrix.com/seventhsin/query.phtml} (CD database)
-
-@item @uref{http://TheMatrix.com/~flmm/GEAR.html} (Used Audio Gear Database)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.kiss.de/musik-mueller/} (Musical note-sheets)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.bagism.com/} (Bagism; A John Lennon fan page)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.selftaught.com/} (US Folk art broker)
-
-@item @uref{http://organizer.net/} (Mail reading on the Web)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.mypage.org/} (Free home pages on www.somecoolname.mypage.org)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.schulweb.de/} (Der Server f@"ur Schulen im Web - in German)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.ald.net/} (Auldhaefen Online Services)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.cary.net/} (CaryNET Information Center)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.dataden.com/} (Dataden Computer Systems)
-
-@item @uref{http://andree.grm.se/} (Andr@'emuseet; in Swedish)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.him.net/} (HOMESITE Internet Marketing)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.jade-v.com/techinfo.html} (Jade-V Network Services)
-
-@item @uref{http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gl)/abt/aknw/tech.rxml}
-Weather World 2010 Technical Credits
-
-@item @uref{http://gimp.foebud.org/registry/doc/}
-About The Gimp plugin registry
-
-@item @uref{http://www.fast-inc.com/Products/Archiver/database.html}
-Java tool; archiver technical detail (Slightly optimistic about MySQL
-ANSI-92 compliance)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.gamesdomain.com/cheats/usrcheat.phtml} (Games Domain Cheats Database)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.kcilink.com/poweredby/} (The "Powered By" Page; Kcilink)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.netcasting.net/index.whtml} (Netcasting)
-
-@item @uref{http://homepages.tig.com.au/~mjj/nbltips} (NBL: Australian National Basketball League; tipping)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.cgishop.com/} (CGI shop)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.whirlycott.com/} (Whirlycott: Website Design)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.mtp.dk/} (Museum Tusculanum Press)
-
-@item @uref{http://csdgi.historie.ku.dk/biblio/} (Centro Siciliano di Documentazione)
-
-@item @uref{http://caribou.dyn.ml.org:8000/} (Quake statistics database)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.astroforum.ch/} (Astroforum: Astrologie and related things; in German)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.opendebate.com/} (OpenDebate - Interactive Polls & Open Discussion)
-
-@item @uref{http://vermeer.organik.uni-erlangen.de/dissertationen/} (Online chemical dissertation server)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.freschinfo.com/} (FreSch! The Free Scholarship Search Service)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.nada.kth.se/~staffanu/pinball/} (Stockholm Pinball Locator)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.hek.com/} (HEK - a construction company)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.ebi.nl/} (Elsevier Business Information)
-
-@item @uref{http://vaccination.medicallink.se/} (Medical Links; using ColdFusion and MySQL)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.joblink-usa.com/} (Search for jobs & people at JobLink-USA)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.skydive.net/competfs/} (Competition Formation Skydiving)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.galaxy-net.net/} (Galaxy-NET Telecommunications; E-commerce and internal accounting)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.borsen.dk/} (Denmark's leading business daily newspaper B@o{}rsen)
-
-@item @uref{http://tmmm.simplenet.com/indb/} (The Internet NES Database)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.russia.cz/} (Travel agency in Prague in 3 languages)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.linkstation.de/} (Linkstation)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.peoplestaff.com/} (Searchable online database at Peoplestaff)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.dreamhorse.com/} (A searchable database system for horse classified ads)
-
-@item @uref{http://pootpoot.com/} (The Poot site)
-
-@item @uref{http://grateful.net/hw_html/} ("Playin' in the LAN"; a network monitoring suite)
-
-@c Update from  Christopher Milton <cmilton@bwn.net> 1999-12-21
-@item @uref{http://www.usapa.army.mil/} (U.S. Army Publishing Agency)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.nekretnine.co.yu/} (Realestate handling in Yugoslavia)
-
-@item @uref{http://demo.cpsoft.com/pims/devFAQ.html} (PIMS; a Patient Information Management System)
-
-@item @uref{http://cpsoft.com/} (Pilkington Software Inc)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.no-quarter.org/} (A Vietnam Veteran's Memorial - The Wall - database)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.gamers-union.com/} (Gamer's Union specializes in auctions of used & out-of-print gaming material)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.montereyhigh.com/office/dbul.php3} (A daily bulletin at Monterey High school)
-
-@item @uref{http://www.myEastside.com/} (Community-owned site serving Lake
-Washington's Eastside residents and businesses)
-
-@item @uref{http://bowling-france.net/} (French bowling site)
-@end itemize
-
-Send any additions to this list to @email{webmaster@@mysql.com}.
-
-@page
-
-
-
-
-@node MySQL Testimonials, Contrib, Users, Top
-@appendix MySQL Testimonials
-
-@cindex MySQL Testimonials
-
-The section 'MySQL Users' contains a lot of different links to
-MySQL users but doesn't provide that much information about how
-they are using MySQL.  @xref{Users}. This section gives you an idea
-of how other MySQL users are using MySQL to solve their problems.
-
-Please note that all new stories are added on the MySQL website,
-@uref{http://www.mysql.com/}.
-Do let us know about @emph{your} success story too!
-
-@itemize @bullet
-@item 
-@strong{Peter Zaitsev of Spylog.ru} writes:
-I think you might be interested in my database size.  The whole database
-is currently on 15 servers and I think it's about 60.000 of tables
-containing about 5.000.000.000 of rows.  My mostly loaded server
-currently holds about 10.000 of tables with 1.000.000.000 of rows in it.
-Hugest tables have about 50.000.000 of rows, and this value will raise
-as soon as I'll move to 2.4 kernel with large files. Currently I have to
-delete much of logs for large sites to hold table sizes in 2Gb.
-
-@item
-@strong{Texas Instruments} is using MySQL for handling tables 
-that contain up to 2,000 million rows in a validation regression database.
-@end itemize
-
-@page
-
-
-
-
-@node Contrib, Credits, MySQL Testimonials, Top
+@node Contrib, Credits, Problems, Top
 @appendix Contributed Programs
 
 @cindex contributed programs
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+@c FIX AGL 20011108 Extracted from manual.texi.
+@c Should only be on website with new submits by webform.
+
+
+@node MySQL Testimonials, Contrib, Users, Top
+@appendix MySQL Testimonials
+
+@cindex MySQL Testimonials
+
+The section 'MySQL Users' contains a lot of different links to
+MySQL users but doesn't provide that much information about how
+they are using MySQL.  @xref{Users}. This section gives you an idea
+of how other MySQL users are using MySQL to solve their problems.
+
+Please note that all new stories are added on the MySQL website,
+@uref{http://www.mysql.com/}.
+Do let us know about @emph{your} success story too!
+
+@itemize @bullet
+@item 
+@strong{Peter Zaitsev of Spylog.ru} writes:
+I think you might be interested in my database size.  The whole database
+is currently on 15 servers and I think it's about 60.000 of tables
+containing about 5.000.000.000 of rows.  My mostly loaded server
+currently holds about 10.000 of tables with 1.000.000.000 of rows in it.
+Hugest tables have about 50.000.000 of rows, and this value will raise
+as soon as I'll move to 2.4 kernel with large files. Currently I have to
+delete much of logs for large sites to hold table sizes in 2Gb.
+
+@item
+
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+@c FIX AGL 20011108 Extracted from manual.texi.
+@c Should only be on website.
+
+
+@node Users, Contrib, Problems, Top
+@appendix MySQL Users
+
+@cindex users, of MySQL
+@cindex news sites
+
+This appendix lists users of MySQL that have given us permission
+to list them in our documentation.  It is by far not a complete list, but
+should give you a general idea of who uses MySQL and what it can
+be used for.
+
+@appendixsec General News Sites
+
+@itemize @bullet
+
+@item @uref{http://www.yahoo.com/} (Yahoo!)
+
+@item @uref{http://slashdot.org/} (Slashdot: A pro-Linux/tech news and comment/discussion site)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.linux.com/} (All about Linux)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.linuxtoday.com/} (Linuxtoday)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.32bitsonline.com/} (32Bits Online: because there's
+more than one way to compute)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.freshmeat.net/} (Freshmeat: News about new versions of computer-related stuff)
+
+@end itemize
+
+@cindex search engines, web
+@cindex web search engines
+@appendixsec Web Search Engines
+
+@itemize @bullet
+
+@item @uref{http://www.aaa.com.au/} (AAA Matilda Web Search)
+@item @uref{http://www.whatsnu.com/} (What's New)
+@item @uref{http://www.aladin.de/} (Aladin)
+@item @uref{http://www.columbus-finder.de/} (Columbus Finder)
+@item @uref{http://www.spider.de/} (Spider)
+@item @uref{http://www.blitzsuche.de/} (Blitzsuche)
+@item @uref{http://www.indoseek.co.id/} (Indoseek Indonesia)
+@item @uref{http://www.yaboo.dk/} (Yaboo - Yet Another BOOkmarker)
+@item @uref{http://www.ozsearch.com.au/} (OzSearch Internet Guide)
+@item @uref{http://www.splatsearch.com/} (Splat! Search)
+@item @uref{http://osdls.library.arizona.edu/} (The Open Source Digital Library System Project)
+@end itemize
+
+@appendixsec Information Search Engines Specialising in a Particular Area
+
+@itemize @bullet
+
+@item @uref{http://www.spylog.ru/} (SpyLOG ;  A very popular Web counter site)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.tucows.com/} (TuCows Network; Free Software archive)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.jobvertise.com/} (Jobvertise: Post and search for jobs)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.musicdatabase.com/} (The Music Database)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.soccersearch.com/} (Football -Soccer- search page)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.headrush.net/takedown} (TAKEDOWN - wrestling)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.lyrics.net/} (The International Lyrics Network)
+
+@item @uref{http://TheMatrix.com/~matrix/band_search.phtml} (Musicians looking for other musicians; free service)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.addall.com/AddBooks/Stores.html} (AddALL books searching and price comparison)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.herbaria.harvard.edu/Data/Gray/gray.html} (Harvard's Gray Herbarium Index of Plant Names)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.game-developer.com/} (The Game Development Search Engine)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.theinnkeeper.com/} (The Innkeeper Vacation Guides)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.macgamedatabase.com/} (The Mac Game Database uses PHP and MySQL)
+@c From: Marc Antony Vose <suzerain@suzerain.com>
+
+@item @uref{http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/publications/} (Research
+Publications at Monash University in Australia)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.ipielle.emr.it/bts/}
+(Occupational Health & Safety Website database; a project for the ECC)
+@c c.presutti@ipielle.emr.it
+
+@item @uref{http://data.mch.mcgill.ca/} (Bioinformatics databases at the
+Montreal Children's Hospital using MySQL)
+@c saeed@www.debelle.mcgill.ca
+@end itemize
+
+@cindex online magazines
+@cindex magazines, online
+@appendixsec Online Magazines
+
+@itemize @bullet
+@item @uref{http://www.spoiler.com/} (Spoiler Webzine)
+An online magazine featuring music, literature, arts, and design content.
+@item @uref{http://www.linux-magazin.de/newsflash/} (Daily news about Linux in German language)
+@item @uref{http://www.betazine.com/} (Betazine - The Ultimate Online Beta Tester's Magazine)
+@item @uref{http://www.currents.net/ccinfo/aboutcc.html} (Computer Currents Magazine)
+@end itemize
+
+@cindex websites
+@appendixsec Websites that Use MySQL as a Backend
+
+@itemize @bullet
+
+@item @uref{http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/} (NASA)
+@item @uref{http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/} (NASA KIDS)
+@item @uref{http://science.nasa.gov/} (Sience@@NASA)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.handy.de/} (handy.de)
+
+@item @uref{http://lindev.jmc.tju.edu/qwor/} (Qt Widget and Object Repository)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.samba-choro.com.br/} (Brazilian samba site; in Portuguese)
+
+@item @uref{http://pgss.iss.uw.edu.pl/en_index.ISS} (Polish General Social Survey)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.expo2000.com/} Expo2000 - world-wide distribution of
+tickets for this event is implemented using MySQL and Tcl/Tk. More than
+5000 travel agencies all over the world have access to it.
+
+@item @uref{http://www.freevote.com/} FreeVote.com is a free voting
+service with millions of users.
+
+@item @uref{http://f1.tauzero.se/} (Forza Motorsport)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.dreamhost.com/} (DreamHost Web Hosting)
+
+@end itemize
+
+@cindex services
+@appendixsec Domain/Internet/Web and Related Services
+
+@itemize @bullet
+
+@item @uref{http://www.wix.com/mysql-hosting/} (Registry of Web providers that
+support MySQL)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.yi.org/} (Dynamic DNS Services)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.dynodns.net/} (Dynamic domain name service)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.ods.org/} (Open DNS Project; free dynamic DNS service)
+
+@c @item @uref{http://dynodns.net/} (Free dynamic DNS implementation)
+@c EMAIL: A Moore <amoore@mooresystems.com>
+
+@item @uref{http://www.hn.org/} (Hammernode; Public DNS Servers)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.fdns.net/} (Free 3rd level domains)
+
+@item @uref{http://worldcommunity.com/} (Online Database)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.bigbiz.com/} (BigBiz Internet Services)
+
+@item @uref{http://virt.circle.net/} (The Virt Gazette)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.california.com/} (Global InfoNet Inc)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.webhosters.com/} (WebHosters - A Guide to WWW Providers)
+
+@item @uref{http://online.dn.ru/} (Internet information server)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.worldnetla.net/} (WorldNet Communications - An Internet Services Provider)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.netizen.com.au/} (Netizen: Australian-based Web consultancy)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.trainingpages.co.uk/} (Search site for training courses in the UK)
+
+@item @uref{http://chat.nitco.com/} (Gannon Chat; GPL. Written in Perl and Javascript)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.addurls.com/} (A general links directory)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.bookmarktracker.com/} (A Web-based bookmark management service)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.cdrom.com/} (Walnut Creek CDROM)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.wwwthreads.org/} (WWWThreads; Interactive discussion Forums)
+
+@item @uref{http://pvmon.portici.enea.it/Meteo/} (In Italian; Storage data from meteo station)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.buysell.net/} (Online "Person To Person" Auction)
+
+@item @uref{http://tips.pair.com/} (Tips on Web development)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.mailfriends.com/} (Mailfriends.com is a FREE service for
+everybody who wants to find friends over the internet)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.uninova.com/cgi-bin/wctelnets?list} (Web Page Telnet BBS List)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.uninova.com/cnc.html} (UniNova Digital Postcards)
+
+@c @item @uref{http://cabinboy.powersurfr.com/} (An Internet RFC search engine)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.dslreports.com/} (DSL-provider search with reviews)
+Made with MySQL and Modperl, all pages are generated dynamically out of
+the MySQL database
+@end itemize
+
+@cindex PHP, websites
+@appendixsec Websites that Use @code{PHP} and MySQL
+
+@itemize @bullet
+@c @item @uref{http://www.wh200th.com/} (White House 200th Anniversary site)
+
+@item @uref{http://support.jgaa.com/} (Jgaa's Internet - Official Support Site)
+
+@item @uref{http://io.incluso.com/} (Ionline - online publication) MySQL,
+PHP, Java, Web programming, DB development
+
+@item @uref{http://www.baboo.com/} (BaBoo - Browse and Bookmark. Free Web-based bookmark manager and Calendar)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.courses.pjc.cc.fl.us/Schedule/}
+(Course Schedule System at Pensacola Junior College)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.fccj.org/} (Florida Community College at Jacksonville)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.32bit.com/} (32bit.com; An extensive shareware / freeware archive)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.jokes2000.com/} (Jokes 2000)
+@c Added 990604; EMAIL: ah@dybdahl.dk
+
+@item @uref{http://www.burken.nu/}
+Burken is a webhotel that provides scripts, among other things,
+for remote users, like counters, guestbooks etc.
+@c Added 990608; EMAIL: spacedmp@SpaceDump.Burken.NU (Anders Olausson)
+
+@item @uref{http://tips.pair.com/}
+Contains tips on html, javascript, 2d/3d graphics, and PHP3/MySQL.
+All pages are generated from a database.
+@c Added 990614; EMAIL: downey@image.dk (Rune Madsen)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.softwarezrus.com/}
+Ecommerce site that is selling computers.
+@end itemize
+
+@cindex consultants, list of
+@appendixsec MySQL Consultants
+
+@itemize @bullet
+
+@item @uref{http://www.ayni.com/} (Ayni AG)
+
+@item @uref{http://worldcommunity.com/} (Online Database)
+
+@item @uref{http://www2.dataguard.no/} (DataGuard; Uses MySQL and PHP)
+
+@item @uref{http://wwits.net/programs/mysql.phtml} (WWITS; uses MySQL and PHP)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.worldcommunity.com/} (WCN - The World Community Network)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.chipcastle.com/} (Chip Castle Dot Com Inc)
+@c Added 990603 EMAIL: chip@chipcastle.com (Chip Castle)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.cyber.com.au/} (Cybersource Pty. Ltd)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.spring.de/} (Spring infotainment gmbh & co. kg)
+@c added 990905 "Oliver Pischke" <opischke@spring.de>
+
+@item @uref{http://www.wamdesign.com/} (Wam Design develops websites using MySQL)
+@c Added 990905; max@wamdesign.com
+
+@item @uref{http://www.berkeleyconsultants.com/} (Berkeley Consultants Group)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.jammconsulting.com/} (JAMM Consulting Inc)
+
+@end itemize
+
+@c Commented out by Arjen 011018, section is empty!
+@c appendixsec Programming
+
+@cindex web pages, miscellaneous
+@appendixsec Uncategorised Pages
+
+@itemize @bullet
+
+@item @uref{http://www.feature-showcase.com/htmls/demo_mysql.sql} (AZC.COM's Feature Showcase)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.teach.org.uk/subjects/trainingcourse/g.html} (Course Search)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.northerbys.com/} (Northerbys Online Auctions)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.schiphol.nl/flights/home.htm} (Amsterdam Airport Schiphol)
+
+@item @uref{http://TheMatrix.com/seventhsin/query.phtml} (CD database)
+
+@item @uref{http://TheMatrix.com/~flmm/GEAR.html} (Used Audio Gear Database)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.kiss.de/musik-mueller/} (Musical note-sheets)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.bagism.com/} (Bagism; A John Lennon fan page)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.selftaught.com/} (US Folk art broker)
+
+@item @uref{http://organizer.net/} (Mail reading on the Web)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.mypage.org/} (Free home pages on www.somecoolname.mypage.org)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.schulweb.de/} (Der Server f@"ur Schulen im Web - in German)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.ald.net/} (Auldhaefen Online Services)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.cary.net/} (CaryNET Information Center)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.dataden.com/} (Dataden Computer Systems)
+
+@item @uref{http://andree.grm.se/} (Andr@'emuseet; in Swedish)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.him.net/} (HOMESITE Internet Marketing)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.jade-v.com/techinfo.html} (Jade-V Network Services)
+
+@item @uref{http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gl)/abt/aknw/tech.rxml}
+Weather World 2010 Technical Credits
+
+@item @uref{http://gimp.foebud.org/registry/doc/}
+About The Gimp plugin registry
+
+@item @uref{http://www.fast-inc.com/Products/Archiver/database.html}
+Java tool; archiver technical detail (Slightly optimistic about MySQL
+ANSI-92 compliance)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.gamesdomain.com/cheats/usrcheat.phtml} (Games Domain Cheats Database)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.kcilink.com/poweredby/} (The "Powered By" Page; Kcilink)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.netcasting.net/index.whtml} (Netcasting)
+
+@item @uref{http://homepages.tig.com.au/~mjj/nbltips} (NBL: Australian National Basketball League; tipping)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.cgishop.com/} (CGI shop)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.whirlycott.com/} (Whirlycott: Website Design)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.mtp.dk/} (Museum Tusculanum Press)
+
+@item @uref{http://csdgi.historie.ku.dk/biblio/} (Centro Siciliano di Documentazione)
+
+@item @uref{http://caribou.dyn.ml.org:8000/} (Quake statistics database)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.astroforum.ch/} (Astroforum: Astrologie and related things; in German)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.opendebate.com/} (OpenDebate - Interactive Polls & Open Discussion)
+
+@item @uref{http://vermeer.organik.uni-erlangen.de/dissertationen/} (Online chemical dissertation server)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.freschinfo.com/} (FreSch! The Free Scholarship Search Service)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.nada.kth.se/~staffanu/pinball/} (Stockholm Pinball Locator)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.hek.com/} (HEK - a construction company)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.ebi.nl/} (Elsevier Business Information)
+
+@item @uref{http://vaccination.medicallink.se/} (Medical Links; using ColdFusion and MySQL)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.joblink-usa.com/} (Search for jobs & people at JobLink-USA)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.skydive.net/competfs/} (Competition Formation Skydiving)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.galaxy-net.net/} (Galaxy-NET Telecommunications; E-commerce and internal accounting)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.borsen.dk/} (Denmark's leading business daily newspaper B@o{}rsen)
+
+@item @uref{http://tmmm.simplenet.com/indb/} (The Internet NES Database)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.russia.cz/} (Travel agency in Prague in 3 languages)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.linkstation.de/} (Linkstation)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.peoplestaff.com/} (Searchable online database at Peoplestaff)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.dreamhorse.com/} (A searchable database system for horse classified ads)
+
+@item @uref{http://pootpoot.com/} (The Poot site)
+
+@item @uref{http://grateful.net/hw_html/} ("Playin' in the LAN"; a network monitoring suite)
+
+@c Update from  Christopher Milton <cmilton@bwn.net> 1999-12-21
+@item @uref{http://www.usapa.army.mil/} (U.S. Army Publishing Agency)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.nekretnine.co.yu/} (Realestate handling in Yugoslavia)
+
+@item @uref{http://demo.cpsoft.com/pims/devFAQ.html} (PIMS; a Patient Information Management System)
+
+@item @uref{http://cpsoft.com/} (Pilkington Software Inc)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.no-quarter.org/} (A Vietnam Veteran's Memorial - The Wall - database)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.gamers-union.com/} (Gamer's Union specializes in auctions of used & out-of-print gaming material)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.montereyhigh.com/office/dbul.php3} (A daily bulletin at Monterey High school)
+
+@item @uref{http://www.myEastside.com/} (Community-owned site serving Lake
+Washington's Eastside residents and businesses)
+
+@item @uref{http://bowling-france.net/} (French bowling site)
+@end itemize
+
+Send any additions to this list to @email{webmaster@@mysql.com}.
+
+@page
+
+
+
+