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*CAOS 11 - Open to Investment
*CollabNet out with new TeamForge 5.2
*Memcached and MySQL appliances abound

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It’s a feature preview with many limitations, but this is still good news. This has been a pretty severe performance limitation for replication in MySQL, which has prompted many a workaround.

Interestingly, the feature preview is based on MySQL 5.1, which has recently seemed to be getting some significant changes even though it’s a GA release. Does this signal a change to MySQL’s release cycle, which has sometimes been characterized as too long? More good news?

Few things get our community excited like a major release version of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite. Today marks availability of the first GnR preview: ZCS 6.0 Beta 1 Open Source Edition. Admins and developers can find it over on the downloads page, for the less technically inclined we’ll also have a new hosted demo up shortly.

Some feature highlights:

» A new horizontal ‘three panel’ view with the message on the right.

» There are now tabs for individual messages as well as the compose page.

» Document & Briefcase access from the standard HTML client.

» Share management & discovery UI that lets you see all shares (email, …

Coming to the Hyatt Santa Clara, for the MySQL Conference & Expo 2009? Beware, that this year, the in-room Internet just isn’t so peachy.

When you check in, there’s this option of a “Business Plan” that Hyatt sells you - USD$30, for free wired in-room Internet (a $12.95/day value), free breakfast (this includes 15% gratuity, so a $20+ value), a free bottle of water (yes, otherwise its $3.95), and all the local and long distance calls in the US that you’ll need (depending on what you do, YMMV). It seemed like a good deal.

Now, for the benefit of others, which has taken about four days for me to fix. When you’re on this plan, the Hyatt rebates your Internet within an hour or so of you signing up for the deal. This tells their ISP that you’re now not able to get access to anything else, but Port 80 and Port 443 access — yes, SMTP, IMAP, SSH, IRC and all …

The MySQL User Conference starts April 20 2009. Please come and see:

New Foreign Keys in 6.1, with Konstantin Osipov and Peter Gulutzan, Wednesday April 22, 15:05. Originally the speaker was going to be Dmitri Lenev, the main developer … but alas, he can’t make it. However, the project lead (Konstantin) and the architect (Peter) constitute the largest pool of expertise on this subject in the whole continent.

Character Sets, with Alexander Barkov and Peter Gulutzan, Wednesday April 22, 20:30. This is a Birds-of-a-Feather get-together, so it’s not a show, just a chance to get together with other people who care about (for example) collation, Unicode, SJIS. Mr Barkov has worked …

Open source in government. Sourcefire announces relationships with Symantec and Microsoft. EPL supercedes CPL. The cost and potential savings of open source. The origins of open source. IBM and Sun - back on? And more.

Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory

# OStatic: Why Isn’t Open Source Even Considered at the U.S. State Government Level?

# Simon Phipps: Five Ideas To Get FOSS Into Governments.

# Sourcefire’s 3D system to be bundled as part of the Symantec Managed Security Services offering.

# Sourcefire has also announced a strategic relationship with Microsoft.

# The Eclipse Foundation has …

Relax, there are four weeks left to register for the MySQL Connector/C++ web seminar. The webinar is scheduled for May 20. Hurry, if you want to attend the MySQL Conference and Expo 2009 with all its sessions. If you had a stressful day, try gardening. Gardening does not require a garden as you can see.

About the webinar: MySQL Connector/C++ is the latest Connector for MySQL. It takes different approach compared to existing C++ drivers by following the JDBC specification in a way that makes sense in C++ world. JDBC is the Java standard for accessing Databases, which has been improved over the numerous Java releases. The JDBC interface is very well thought out. In this webinar you’ll learn: …

The .MOBI registry is giving us a last-minute promotion on .MOBI domain name creations. This lets us provide you with the extension for $11.00 (£5.2 or 7.5€) excluding VAT for A through D rates, which represents a 33% reduction in price over the usual rates.

The promotion is valid until May 31st 2009 and only concerns creations.

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We have just published Andrei's first version of the multi-threaded slave as a preview release.

Currently, the master produce a load by concurrent multiple client connections while the single slave thread execute replication events one by one. In some scenarios, this causes the slave to lag behind the master.

With the multi-threaded slave work, the replication slave will scale on multi-core machines.

This is a very early preview with serious limitations. Even so, please feel free to try it out and let us know what you think.

http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/ReplicationFeatures/ParallelSlave

Relax, there are four weeks left to register for the MySQL Connector/C++ web seminar. The webinar is scheduled for May 20. Hurry, if you want to attend the MySQL Conference and Expo 2009 with all its sessions. If you had a stressful day, try gardening. Gardening does not require a garden as you can see.

About the webinar: MySQL Connector/C++ is the latest Connector for MySQL. It takes different approach compared to existing C++ drivers by following the JDBC specification in a way that makes sense in C++ world. JDBC is the Java standard for accessing Databases, which has been improved over the numerous Java releases. The JDBC interface is very well thought out. In this webinar you’ll learn: …