I recently got a reminder mail to vote for the Sourceforge.Net 2008 Community Choice awards. Going through the list of finalists, I realized how many of these support MySQL as the database backend. It truly amazes me when I look at the wide range of available OSS applications today as well as how advanced many of these have become! More and more commercial applications can nowadays be replaced with Open Source alternatives/equivalents. And many times, MySQL is used to store the applications' data. This is a great trend!
After looking through the list, I spent a few minutes to add the relevant applications to the Project list on MySQL Forge. This section of the Forge is supposed to become a complete, "one-stop" directory of Open Source projects and applications that support or work with MySQL. You can tag, comment and vote on entries as well as just browse through the list. If you have not looked at it yet, make sure to stop by next time you are searching for a particular solution!
Do you have a favourite Open Source application that supports MySQL and is missing from the list? Consider adding it - it only take a few minutes! Thanks for your support - your contribution is appreciated!