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+<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:</p>
+
+<h2 align="center">SQLite Consortium Launches With Mozilla And Symbian As Charter Members</h2>
+
+
+<h3 align="center">Ensures independent technical direction for world's
+most deployed SQL database engine</h3>
+
+<p><b>Charlotte, North Carolina - December 12, 2007</b> - The SQLite Consortium,
+a new membership association dedicated to maintaining SQLite as a fully open 
+and independent product, was formally announced today. Mozilla and Symbian Ltd. 
+have joined the SQLite Consortium as charter members.<p>
+
+<p>SQLite is a compact, high efficiency, high reliability, embeddable SQL database 
+engine. The source code to SQLite is in the public domain and is available with 
+no associated fees. SQLite is the most deployed SQL database engine in the world 
+and is currently used in a wide range of commercial software products and electronic 
+devices from leading manufacturers. SQLite is found today in many mobile phones, 
+MP3 players, set-top boxes, and PCs.</p>
+
+<p>The mission of the SQLite Consortium is to continue developing and enhancing
+SQLite as a product that anyone may use without paying royalties or licensing fees. 
+Members of the SQLite Consortium provide funding to enable this mission and in
+return receive enterprise-level technical support. Technical control and direction
+of SQLite remains entirely with the SQLite developers.</p>
+
+<p>Mozilla, developer of the popular open-source Firefox web browser, and Symbian,
+the market-leading open operating system for advanced data-enabled smartphones, 
+both deploy the SQLite database engine in their products. As charter members of 
+the Consortium, Mozilla and Symbian are ensuring the development and support of 
+SQLite as a freely accessible and public domain software asset.</p>
+
+<p>"SQLite has become a popular embedded database because it is lightweight, fast,
+and open source," said Michael Schroepfer, Vice President of Engineering, Mozilla.
+"As a charter member of the SQLite Consortium, Mozilla is excited to help ensure
+SQLite remains a vibrant and open technology, in line with our mission to promote
+choice and innovation on the Internet."</p>
+
+<p>"The SQLite Consortium will help set the standards for database management 
+which are essential in smartphone functionality and will also help create a pool
+of developers, highly-skilled in SQLite for future mobile phone development, "
+said Bruce Carney, Director, Developer Programmes & Services, Symbian. 
+"Our involvement with the SQL Consortium not only demonstrates Symbian's commitment 
+to open standards in the industry, but as mobile phones become increasingly powerful
+and smartphones become increasingly popular, we are focused on ensuring that
+desktop developers, who move to the mobile space, have the easiest and most
+productive experience possible."</p>
+
+<p>SQLite is a winner of the 2005 Google/O'Reilly Open Source Award. Additional
+information regarding the SQLite Consortium is available at the SQLite website,
+http://www.sqlite.org/.</p>
+
+<center>
+# # #
+</center>
+
+<p><b>About SQLite</b></p>
+
+<p>SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, 
+serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. The code for 
+SQLite is in the public domain and is free for any use, commercial or private. 
+SQLite is currently found in countless software titles and electronic devices.</p>
+
+<p>SQLite was originally developed and released 2000 by Dr. D. Richard Hipp.
+The code continues to be maintained and enhanced by an international team 
+of developers under Hipp's direction.</p>
+
+
+<p>
+CONTACT INFORMATION:<br>
+SQLite Consortium<br>
+Dr. D. Richard Hipp<br>
+6200 Maple Cove Lane<br>
+Charlotte, NC 28269<br>
+Email: drh@sqlite.org<br>
+http://www.sqlite.org/<br>
+Tel: +1.704.948.4565
+</p>
+
+
+<p><b>About Mozilla</b></p>
+
+<p>Mozilla is a global community dedicated to building free, open source products 
+and technologies that improve the online experience for people everywhere. 
+Mozilla works in the open with a highly disciplined, transparent and cooperative 
+development process, under the umbrella of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. 
+As a wholly owned subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation organizes the development 
+and marketing of Mozilla products. This unique structure has enabled Mozilla to 
+financially support and cultivate competitive, viable community innovation. 
+For more information, visit www.mozilla.com.</p>
+
+<p>CONTACT INFORMATION:<br>
+Mozilla Corporation<br>
+Jessica Waight<br>
+Tel: +1.415.345.4754<br>
+Email: jwaight@outcastpr.com
+</p>
+
+<p><b>About Symbian Limited</b></p>
+
+<p>Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, 
+the market-leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones 
+known as smartphones.</p>
+
+<p>Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset manufacturers 
+and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies 
+across the mobile industry. During Q3 2007, 20.4 million Symbian smartphones 
+were sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators, bringing the total
+number of Symbian smartphones shipped up to 30 September 2007 to 165 million.</p>
+
+<p>Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom, with offices in the 
+United States, United Kingdom, Asia (India, P.R. China, and Korea) and Japan.
+For more information, please visit www.symbian.com.</p>
+
+<p>CONTACT INFORMATION:<br>
+Symbian Global Press Office<br>
+Karen Hamblen<br>
++44 207 154 1707<br>
+press@symbian.com
+</p>
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