Contributors to MySQL •Martin Ramsch  <m.ramsch@computer.org> •Steve Harvey •Konark IA-64 Centre of Persistent Systems Private Limited •Albert Chin-A-Young. •John Birrell •Benjamin Pflugmann •Jocelyn Fournier •Marc Liyanage •Robert Rutherford •Previous developers of NDB Cluster •Google Inc. 87 And lots of bug report/patches from the folks on the mailing list. A big tribute goes to those that help us answer questions on the MySQL mailing lists: Other contributors, bugfinders, and testers: James H. Thompson, Maurizio Menghini, Wojciech Tryc, Luca Berra, Zarko Mocnik, Wim Bonis, Elmar Haneke,  <jehamby@lightside> , <psmith@BayNetworks.com> ,  <duane@connect.com.au> , Ted Deppner  <ted@psyber.com> , Mike Simons, Jaakko Hyvatti. We wish to recognize Google Inc. for contributions to the MySQL distribution: Mark Callaghan’s SMP Performance patches and other patches. Lots of people were involved in various ways summer students, master thesis students, employees. In total more than 100 people so too many to mention here. Notable name is Ataullah Dabaghi who up until 1999 contributed around a third of the code base. A special thanks also to developers of the AXE system which provided much of the architectural foundations for NDB Cluster with blocks, signals and crash tracing functionality. Also credit should be given to those who believed in the ideas enough to allocate of their budgets for its development from 1992 to present time. Providing invaluable information and feedback about the QNX port. Maintaining the OS X packages and providing invaluable feedback on how to create OS X packages. Excellent spotting and reporting innumerable bugs (especially in the MySQL 4.1 subquery code). Extended  MERGE  tables to handle  INSERTS . Active member on the MySQL mailing lists. Emulation of  pthread_mutex()  for OS/2. Configure updates for Tru64, large file support and better TCP wrappers support. Help with the Win64 port of the MySQL server. For making  mysqlaccess  more secure. Examples in the MySQL Tutorial.