## 1.8.4 Tools that were used to create MySQL 

The following is a list of some of the tools we have used to create MySQL. We use this to express our thanks to those that has created them as without these we could not have made MySQL what it is today. 

•Free Software Foundation 

From whom we got an excellent compiler ( gcc ), an excellent debugger ( gdb  and the libc  library (from which we have borrowed strto.c  to get some code working in Linux). 

•Free Software Foundation & The XEmacs development team 

For a really great editor/environment. 

•Julian Seward 

Author of valgrind , an excellent memory checker tool that has helped us find a lot of otherwise hard to find bugs in MySQL. 

•Dorothea Lütkehaus and Andreas Zeller 

For DDD  (The Data Display Debugger) which is an excellent graphical front end to gdb ). 

## 1.8.5 Supporters of MySQL 

Although Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates own all copyrights in the MySQL server  and the MySQL manual , we wish to recognize the following companies, which helped us finance the development of the MySQL server , such as by paying us for developing a new feature or giving us hardware for development of the MySQL server . 

•VA Linux / Andover.net 

Funded replication. 

•NuSphere 

Editing of the MySQL manual. 

•Stork Design studio 

The MySQL website in use between 1998-2000. 

•Intel 

Contributed to development on Windows and Linux platforms. 

•Compaq 

Contributed to Development on Linux/Alpha. 

•SWSoft 

Development on the embedded mysqld  version. 

•FutureQuest 

The --skip-show-database  option. 

