As expected, the news arrived this morning that MySQL 5.0 is now available for Production Use.

MySQL 5.0 is an important milestone, not just for the people at MySQL, but also for the open source community as a whole. It proves that it's possible to produce a professional quality software package with the support and back up of the community.

I'm still testing MySQL 5.0 - not the software, but the applications I run on it - it's going to take a while to be absolutely sure that everything is OK before I start deploying my applications on the new system. I've already started developing new projects and applications using a MySQL 5.0 server - it's only existing ones I'm worried about.