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 1.5.2 History of MaxDB
 ----------------------
 
 The history of MaxDB goes back to SAP DB, SAP AG's DBMS. That is, MaxDB
 is a re-branded and enhanced version of SAP DB. For many years, MaxDB
 has been used for small, medium, and large installations of the mySAP
 Business Suite and other demanding SQL applications requiring an
 enterprise-class DBMS with regard to the number of users, the
 transactional workload, and the size of the database.
 
 SAP DB was meant to provide an alternative to third-party database
 systems such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and DB2 by IBM. In
 October 2000, SAP AG released SAP DB under the GNU GPL license (see
  gpl-license), thus making it Open Source software.
 
 Today, MaxDB is used in about 3,500 SAP customer installations
 worldwide. Moreover, the majority of all DBMS installations on Unix and
 Linux within SAP’s IT department rely on MaxDB. MaxDB is tuned toward
 heavy-duty online transaction processing (OLTP) with several thousand
 users and database sizes ranging from several hundred GB to multiple TB.
 
 In 2003, SAP and MySQL concluded a partnership and development
 cooperation agreement. As a result, SAP's database system SAP DB has
 been delivered under the name of MaxDB by MySQL since the release of
 version 7.5 (November 2003).
 
 Version 7.5 of MaxDB is a direct advancement of the SAP DB 7.4 code
 base. Therefore, the MaxDB software version 7.5 can be used as a direct
 upgrade of previous SAP DB versions starting 7.2.04 and higher.
 
 The former SAP DB development team at SAP AG is responsible, now as
 before, for developing and supporting MaxDB. MySQL AB cooperates
 closely with the MaxDB team at SAP around delivering improvements to
 the MaxDB product, see  maxdb.  Both SAP AG and MySQL AB handle
 the sale and distribution of MaxDB. The advancement of MaxDB and the
 MySQL Server leverages synergies that benefit both product lines.
 
 MaxDB is subjected to SAP AG's complete quality assurance process
 before it is shipped with SAP solutions or provided as a download from
 the MySQL site.
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