Are you going to JavaOne? I am not, but I will be at the Open HA Cluster Summit tomorrow. I will be part of a panel session on HA. I guess they needed someone with the HA light perspective -- that is how do you get a highly available service when you don't get to use HA components like MySQL Cluster. A lot of interesting work remains to be done to make this possible with regular MySQL. Projects like MMM, Tungsten and the Google patch with global transaction IDs are pieces that might eventually provide a complete solution. There is work underway at MySQL/Sun in the replication team as well. They may even be buiding the integrated solution for MySQL Enterprise.