Monday, 11 September 2006

Webyog Open Sources SQLyog GUI for MySQL

Webyog Softworks, a provider of data management tools, has announced that SQLyog, its graphical client for administration of MySQL databases, will be released under the Open Source GPL license.

SQLyog runs on Windows and the Wine Windows emulator on Linux. Besides the GPL-based Open Source release, Webyog offers an 'Enterprise' version of the product that includes 'Power Tools' for SQLyog, a set of features for MySQL DBAs and developers.

"We are very glad to distribute SQLyog under an Open Source License. This has been made possible due to the enormous support from our users and customers," said Rohit Nadhani, co-founder of Webyog. "We can assure MySQL users that we will continue to do our best to provide them with state-of-the-art tools. The MySQL ecosystem provides us with a perfect framework to do so."

"We welcome Webyog's contribution to the open source community and MySQL eco-system," said Kaj Arno, vice president of open source community relations for MySQL AB. "Their flagship SQLyog software has been a great resource for MySQL database users for many years. We support their efforts to grow their business by releasing an open source version of their successful product."

According to Mike Hillyer, the SQLyog GUI for MySQL has been a good tool for MySQL developers and administrators and one that he has been watching for several years now.

You can see a nice, clear summary of the differences between their community edition and their commercial Enterprise edition here. You can download a copy of SQLyog here.