Sage has delivered on a pledge outlined more than a year ago by Sage Software CEO Ron Verni as it struck a deal last month for the worldwide use of MySQL, a database engine. To go back to the reasons for this move, just examine what Verni said at Insights 2005, the company's reseller conference, when he promised that Sage would be "database agnostic." "With Microsoft being a competitor, we are looking at what we can do for our customers," Verni said. "If someone wants to buy a Microsoft database, that is fine."
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