In the efforts of providing true database ubiquity for the award-witting Joomla platform, SML has announced the creation and sponsoring of the PDO Driver project on Joomla's own JoomlaCode.

The purpose of the project is to integrate the PHP5 native database interface with the Joomla application framework. The benefit is enabling Joomla-based applications to take advantage of the performance benefits of a faster database library, as well as having the eventual ability to deploy Joomla applications on non-MySQL database platforms such as PostgreSQL.