Embarcadero DBArtisan, the leading cross-platform database administration solution, helps DBAs maximize availability, performance, and security. Comprehensive graphical editors and wizards boost productivity by reducing errors and permitting existing staff to manage more databases. Support for all major database platforms allows organizations to standardize on one solution.

"The levels in uptake we've witnessed directly from our customers of MySQL Network and SQL Server 2005 CTP demonstrably shows the mission criticality of these database systems," said Greg Keller, vice president of product management, Embarcadero Technologies. "Early on, we saw the relative ease and simplicity of these database systems' installation and distribution and knew that our customers were going to require an immediate solution to govern and administer them as they rapidly came on line.

The launch of DBArtisan version 8.1 now gives our customers and the industry the single broadest coverage of administration capabilities in a seamless cross-platform workbench, providing DBAs a true single point of control of their open source systems like MySQL Network through distributed systems like Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Oracle, Sybase, and IBM's DB2 LUW and DB2 for z/OS."