Here are CAOS Theory’s top 20 posts of 2009, in terms of page views:
October – Our take on the potential ramifications of the suspension of OSI’s corporate status.
January – An overview of the open core and embedded open source strategies that we expected to dominate in 2009.
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Jonathan Rosenberg of Google posted a rather long but thoughtful description of what it means to be Open. Although he skips over a few things with a hand waving and a "yeah, I know I just said Open is good, that it's counter to what business types normally think, but in the long run Open is better... it just doesn't apply to these few things for vague reasons" the bulk of his post is both well thought out and correct.
The crux of the whole thing: Open wins.
I agree. We all need to continue to grapple with that and to continue to fight against the urges of "oh, but this thing is the magical exception to that rule." It's not.
Open wins. Closed can suck it.
A week after the first announcement, MySQL user conference seems like it's coming together and will be as good as ever.
In particular, Sun makes a come back with a tailor-made "Founding sponsor" status. Great! That means everyone will be there, just like we are used to.
Call for Papers is opened, but hurry, you only have a month to submit your papers. Baron Schwartz has updated his"How to write a good MySQL conference proposal.
MySQL Connector/Net 6.2.2, a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for MySQL has been released.This is our latest GA release and is suitable for use in all scenarios against servers ranging from version 4.1 to 5.4!
It is now available in source and binary form from [http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/6.2.html]
and mirror sites
(note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point
of time - if you can't find this version on some mirror, please
try again later or choose another download site.)
The new features or changes in this release are:
The MySQL Replication and Backup team is working with several
community developers.
MySQL does a milestone release (roughly) every six months. To get
patches included into a milestone release, it needs to be ready
before the deadline for that milestone. All milestone releases
are published, but not all will become GA-classified.
The below describes the process on how to get a contributed
Replication or Backup patch included into a milestone
release.
Larry Ellison makes it very clear that Oracle believes in a back to the future model
where software and hardware meld together into “systems”,
purpose-built, integrated solutions. In other words you won’t buy
an Oracle database and a server and configure it to run a data
warehouse, instead you’ll buy the “Oracle Data Warehouse Server.”
The first such system is Exadata, which is apparently doing quite
well, according to Ellison.
This is a classic bundling, although some may call it a tying
strategy. Microsoft, seeing that they couldn’t win each office
productivity segment individually—including word processing,
spreadsheet and presentations—decided to play to their strength
and bundle them into a solution that no individual company could
compete with. This is bundling. The tying strategy is where
Microsoft used their dominance in …
How does InnoDB do on a server that supports 10,000 IOPS? I am sure this wasn't the first thing on Heikki's mind as he was designing InnoDB 10 to 15 years ago. On hardware that can do 35,000 reads/second of 16kb pages I can get ~11,000 reads per second from InnoDB in MySQL 5.0 and ~17,000 reads per second from the InnoDB plugin. Mutex contention within InnoDB is the limiting factor.
For 16kb page reads, the maximum IOPS on the server depends on the number of concurrent requests. These are results from sysbench fileio for an 8-core server. I don't have the command line, but used this configuration with my sysbench branch.
The second development release of MySQL Connector/Python comes with support for Python v3.1!
I thought of making two distributions of MySQL Connector/Python, but then it would have been messy with versions and packaging. So what you get now is 2-in-1 and the installation script should be smart enough to figure it out.
Please, if you find any issues, bugs or have suggestions: report them here https://bugs.launchpad.net/myconnpy
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From LaunchPad!
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Added Python v3.1 support
* The subdirectory/module py3k/ contains Connector/Python compatible
with Python v3.1.1.
* setup.py will install the correct Connector/Python distribution
depending on …