### 1.8.3 Packages that support MySQL

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 The following is a list of creators/maintainers of some of the most important API/packages/applications that a lot of people use with MySQL.

 We cannot list every possible package here because the list would then be way to hard to maintain. For other packages, please refer to the software portal at [http://solutions.mysql.com/software/](http://solutions.mysql.com/software/).

* Tim Bunce, Alligator Descartes

   For the `DBD` (Perl) interface.

* Andreas Koenig `<[a.koenig@mind.de](mailto:a.koenig@mind.de)>`

   For the Perl interface for MySQL Server.

* Jochen Wiedmann `<[wiedmann@neckar-alb.de](mailto:wiedmann@neckar-alb.de)>`

   For maintaining the Perl `DBD::mysql` module.

* Eugene Chan `<[eugene@acenet.com.sg](mailto:eugene@acenet.com.sg)>`

   For porting PHP for MySQL Server.

* Georg Richter

   MySQL 4.1 testing and bug hunting. New PHP 5.0 `mysqli` extension (API) for use with MySQL 4.1 and up.

* Giovanni Maruzzelli `<[maruzz@matrice.it](mailto:maruzz@matrice.it)>`

   For porting iODBC (Unix ODBC).

* Xavier Leroy `<[Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr](mailto:Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr)>`

   The author of LinuxThreads (used by the MySQL Server on Linux).

