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<nowiki>MySQL</nowiki> is open source and works on many different platforms including [[AIX]], [[BSDi]], [[DEC Unix]], [[FreeBSD]], [[HP-UX]], [[Linux]], [[Mac OS X]], [[NetBSD]], [[OpenBSD]], [[OS/2]] Warp, [[SGI]] [[Irix]], [[Solaris Operating Environment|Solaris]], [[SunOS]], SCO <nowiki>OpenServer</nowiki>, SCO <nowiki>UnixWare</nowiki>, [[Tru64 Unix]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] 95, 98, NT and 2000.

<nowiki>MySQL</nowiki> databases can be accessed using the [[programming language|programming languages]] [[C programming language|C]], [[C Plus Plus|C++]], [[Eiffel programming language|Eiffel]], [[Java programming language|Java]], [[Perl]], [[PHP]], [[Python]], and [[Tcl]]; for each of these, a specific [[API]] is available. An [[ODBC]] interface called <nowiki>MyODBC</nowiki> is also available.

Despite the official pronunciation of SQL being "sequel", the common pronunciation of MySQL is "My S-Q-L", and not "My-Sequel".