With the GA announcement of MySQL 5.1 coming up, we have picked the winners in the MySQL 5.1 Use Case Competition.
To keep you in suspense, let me first announce those on positions 5 to 10:
5. Fourat Zouari (TriTUX.com, Tunis, Tunisia): Using Partitioning for Data Warehousing. See Fourat’s DevZone article, and his blog entry from May 2008.
6. Ryan Thiessen (Big Fish Games, Seattle, …
[Read more]Simon Phipps yesterday blogged about the emerging Sun Model for Open Source business:
As time has gone by, a clear “Sun Model” for open source business has been emerging, at least to my eyes. The summary of it is:
Each software team at Sun interprets this model in a slightly different way, but the model holds pretty much everywhere and works regardless of the license for the code. As a business model, it …
[Read more]To understand a bit of Italian, I just need a comparatively small amount of vino bianco. By contrast, to get any information flow going at all in Russian requires larger amounts of … preparation. That doesn’t have to be vodka, it can also be interesting discussions with Russians, or the opportunity to give a speech.
Now, a blog is the scalable way to interact with the rest of
humanity, and I’m trying to increase my fluency in all things Web
2.0. So, here goes, may I present my Russian blog:
Like in the case of presenting my Italian blog, let me quote Google Translate’s automatic translation of some of my “writings” — deliberately doing so without making any improvements on the automatic translation:
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[Read more]Given that I don’t speak Italian, it may seem a bit strange that I just started an Italian language blog on http://blogs.arno.fi/dolce_vita/:
But I do have a point with my blog. Let me quote Google Translate’s automatic translation of some of my “writings” — deliberately doing so without making any improvements on the automatic translation:
“Of all the languages that I do not speak, I speak Italian the best.”
This is my motto when it comes to speaking Italian. Moreover, Italy is my favorite …
[Read more]“So, I suppose MySQL’s main competitor is Oracle?” is a frequent question I get asked by the press. “Well, we don’t really compete heads-on with other databases. We co-exist! Just as an example: Over a third of respondents in an Oracle User Group survey said they also use MySQL”, I answer.
The reporter then continues “But everyone has a main competitor. Don’t you plan for people to migrate from Oracle to MySQL?”. I continue with “Not really. Migrations do happen, but not all that often. MySQL tends to be used in new applications.”
“But surely you must have some competitive atmosphere, or equivalent feelings towards Oracle.” The reporter never gives up. “Don’t you at least internally joke about your relationship with Oracle?”.
And that’s where I will now have a new answer for whichever reporter nexts goes …
[Read more]Today is Good News Day. In addition to my note on Ivan Nikitin’s improved health, I have good news for our current and potential code contributors:
We have moved from having used MySQL AB’s own Contributor License Agreement (CLA) to now using the Sun’s Contributor Agreement (SCA), which is shorter and easier.
I’ve been asked about our contributor licensing on several occasions, such as back in July, at MySQL Camp in Bangalore, India, as Parvesh mentioned in his blog.
The MySQL Contributor License Agreement (CLA) was an agreement that we asked patch and feature contributors to sign …
[Read more]Within minutes after Finland was just about to win 3:2 over Germany in the football world championship qualifications (but it ended 3:3), I got a bit of consolation for myself, my dual-citizenship son cheering for Finland, and my fellow countrymen using MySQL:
We have the next MySQL 5.1 Use Case article live, and it’s about FC Inter Milan. No Finns playing there (but stars such as Ibrahimovic, Materazzi, Luis Figo, and Adriano). And, from a MySQL perspective, the interesting point is that FC Inter Milan is using both MySQL 5.1 Partitioning and the Event Scheduler in an innovative way.
Thanks Corrado Pandiani for the story — let’s
hope your good Use Case inspires others! …
Tomorrow, there’s a particularly interesting MySQL University session coming up: The OpenSolaris Web Stack.
This session is presented by key experts outside the Database Group, but inside Sun:
For practical reasons, this session happens three hours later than normal. To decipher that into a timezone which may be familiar to you, this means 9:00 PST / 16:00 UTC / 17:00 GMT / 18:00 CET.
Abstract:
OpenSolaris Web Stack is an OpenSolaris project and community building an integrated stack of …
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Innovation Everywhere! That’s the motto of the
MySQL Conference
& Expo 20-23 April 2009, in Santa Clara.
If April next year sounds like the
distant future to you, then you’re evidently not planning to be a
presenter. Since if you do plan to present, there’s a very close
date relevant for you: 22 October 2008. That’s when the
Call for Papers closes.
If you’re an innocent bystander and don’t plan on presenting, you may still enjoy lurking at the MySQL Conference Website, for instance looking at some of the full-length keynote videos already posted from the 2008 conference.
On the other hand, if you’re …
[Read more]We timed our Use Case Competition to coincide with summer holidays, and are now prolonging the duration of the Use Case Competition with one month, until 30 September 2008.
To recap, here’s the original posting (with an updated deadline):
With 5.1 having officially been in Release Candidate status since September 2007 and soon approaching GA status, the MySQL Community Team launches a competition for the users of new features of MySQL 5.1:
Submit your MySQL 5.1 Use Case Report to community(at)mysql.com by 30 September 2008 and have a chance of winning one of our prizes: