There seems be a bit of an exodus from the MariaDB Foundation board recently… I’m not sure exactly what to make of it all, but the current members according to https://mariadb.org/en/foundation/ are:

• Rasmus Johansson (chair)
• Michael “Monty” Widenius
• Jeremy Zawodny
• Sergei Golubchik

With Jeremy Zawodny being the only non-MariaDB Corp member.

Recently, Jeremy Cole asked some people about their membership:

@jeremycole Nope. Resigned months ago.

— Mike Milinkovich (@mmilinkov) October 2, 2014

@jeremycole Hi Jeremy, no, sorry, I resigned a little while back.

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As a diamond sponsor, we welcome you to join us and your colleagues at Percona Live London MySQL Conference 2014. Percona Live London is the premier event for the rich and diverse MySQL ecosystem. Percona Live London 2014 will be November 3-4 at the Millennium Gloucester Conference Center.Our clustering and replication rock stars will be will providing the following talks and tutorials:

Keynote:

MySQL Cluster automatically shards data across data nodes on separate hosts which means that your database performance scales naturally as you add more nodes. Data nodes belong to node groups that replicate data so that if one data node fails, another data node carries on working with a copy of the failed node's data. This ensures high availability and scalability.

To learn more about this topic and many other key topics for understanding and using MySQL Cluster, take the MySQL Cluster training course.

You can take this 4-day instructor-led course as a:

• Live-Virtual Event: Attend a live event from your own desk, no travel required. Events will be added to the schedule to suits different time-zones. Register a request to influence the …

Oracle is the most powerful DBMS in the world. However, Oracle's expensive and complex replication makes it difficult to build highly available applications or move data in real-time to data warehouses and popular databases like MySQL.

  In this webinar-on-demand you will learn how Continuent Tungsten solves problems with Oracle replication at a fraction of the cost of other solutions and

Thu, 2014-10-09 21:36robertsilen

Thanks to everybody that visited our booth at SUSE Linux Expert day in Warsaw, Poland this week!

We had a great time with SUSE, our Polish training partner Compendium, Polish distributor Veracomp and of course IBM. The event was just a day after the SUSE and MariaDB on IBM Power8 announcement.

We were very excited by the number of delegates who came to meet the MariaDB booth. Our event survey showed that a lot of the participants are looking for affordable open source database alternatives like MariaDB. The news that MariaDB is now the default relational …

Download MariaDB 5.5.40

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 5.5?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.40. This is a Stable (GA) release.

See the Release Notes and …

MySQL Raleigh Tech Tour

Please join MySQL Sr. Sales Consultant Tony Darnell who will review latest and greatest updates in MySQL 5.6 and share his experience on how they improve performance, scalability and high availability. Topics include:

• MySQL 5.6 — New Features Update
• Security Improvements — Encryption
• Fabric
• MySQL Enterprise Tools Update
• MySQL Utilities Update
• New MySQL Plug-In for Oracle OEM
• The Road Ahead — MySQL 5.7
• Oracle Support for MySQL

To register you must have an Oracle account, if you don’t have an Oracle account, sign up is quick and easy.

We look forward to your participation at this exclusive seminar.

Oct 21, 2014
08:30 AM – 12:30 …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.21-69.0 on October 7, 2014. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.6.21, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.21-69.0 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. Percona Server is open-source and free. …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.40-36.1 on October 7, 2014. Based on MySQL 5.5.40, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.40-36.1 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series.

Percona Server is open-source and free. Details of the release can be found in the 5.5.34-36.1 milestone on Launchpad. Downloads are available …

Here is the list of events where you can find us either as speaker, exhibitor or just attendee actively talking to you! 

• All Your Base, Oxford UK, (October 17, 2014)
  • Find our booth in the exhibition area. Our local MySQL experts Andrew Morgan and Mark Swarbrick should be present and ready to talk to you. 
• OpenSourceConference Japan, Tokyo (October 18-19, 2014)
  • Do not miss following talk given by our local colleague Yoshiaki Yamasaki: "The State of the Dolphin" as well as find out more about the latests technical updates from MySQL Central @ OpenWorld.
  • You can also find our booth in the exhibition area.
• …