On a daily basis, I work with Sun's ISV partners and open source communities to help them adopt Sun technology and make sure that their software works best on Sun. One of the areas that I have been focusing on lately is MySQL. Many of the ISVs / open source communities that I have been talking to recently are either just starting to look at MySQL (due to customer demand) or are trying to make their relationship with MySQL more formal. Something that seems to be of interest to them is the MySQL Enterprise Connection Alliance Program (MECA). MECA is MySQL's partner program, which is geared toward supporting businesses that sell, service, and support and/or build solutions on MySQL Enterprise, or provide solutions based on MySQL database technologies. There are different membership levels, but the base level, called MySQL Enterprise Ready Partner, is …
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HQ 4.0 helps monitor in-house and cloud-based apps using Amazon
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I was able to attend OpenSQLCamp 2008, even while under the influence of DayQuil, jetlag (spent the week in Santa Clara), 3 hours of sleep and a 2 hour drive. Then there’s folks like Arjen who flew across 15 times zones and was still coherent - I guess I’m just not cut out for lots of travel in short time spans. Oh well.
The un-conference was great. You didn’t have the distractions of vendors with big obnoxious displays promising the sun/stars/moon, sales droids trying to peddle wares, marketing puppets who still think vendor lockin is a great strategy - just some really smart folks getting together, sharing what they’ve learned and collaborating. People from MySQL, Drizzle, Postgres and SQLite were there.
Brian Aker’s keynote was insightful. I liked the sticker on his laptop: “My other computer is a data center.” Vadim’s session on the Percona patchset helped illustrate what patches they include in MySQL and why. …
[Read more]The Diameter protocol is designed to provide an Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) framework for applications. The Diameter base protocol is defined by RFC 3588. The 3GPP standards body has adopted Diameter as the primary signaling protocol for AAA and mobility management in the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS).
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In an IMS architecture, an application server like SailFin will use Diameter to communicate with HSS (Home Subscriber Server). HSS is a central subscriber database that performs AAA and helps in … |
Today is an exciting day for us. We have announced that with the upcoming DRBD 8.3 release (currently scheduled for the end of this year), all those features that are currently commercially licensed in our DRBD+ add on will be merged into the GPL DRBD main source tree. That means that stacked device support, huge device support (larger than 4TB per device), and checksum-based resync are all coming to DRBD.
Is this something that we haven’t done before? No it’s not. We have, in the past, repeatedly merged DRBD+ features into DRBD. We have not, however, done so previously on this scale. That is new.
How will this affect our customers and users?
- First of all, if there ever was any relevant functionality gap between proprietary …
A recent clash between free software activists and conference
organizers in India raises the question of whether India can
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So, my wife told me that my site design was boring. Yeah,
she was right. I am no designer. I just don't have
that gene. But, during my work on Wordcraft, I came across
some cool places to find designs that are relased under Open
Source licenses.
- Open Designs - This is arguably the the prettiest of the three. The search, however, is painfully slow because all results return on one page. I guess if you can wait, this is a plus as browsing is easier. Also, you can pick multiple colors and choose by license. They only list XHTML templates (at least as search options). That could be a turn off if you like HTML 4 like me.
- Open Web Design - The site itself could use a design overhaul. But, the content is good. The search lets …
In my opinion, OpenSQL Camp 2008 was a great success. (Give your opinion too.) I have to spend the next couple of days catching up on other things that have gotten delayed, but will try to write more about the experience later. In the meantime, I want to give a heartfelt thanks [...]
Last week, I had the opportunity to visit the three Baltic countries for Sun Microsystems, talking about MySQL powering the Web economy. The tour started on Monday and Tuesday in Vilnius, Lithuania, followed by Riga on Wednesday and Tallinn on Thursday. Many similarities between the countries, which are externally often seen as one unit and which internally sometimes view each other as siblings.
I was joined during the trip by Dutch Sun colleague Martin de Jong, who observed that each of the countries have a larger area than the Netherlands, whereas the combined .lt .lv and .ee population isn’t even half of that of the Netherlands.
But the economic importance of the Baltics is increasing. The Sun Microsystems activities are being managed through Sun Finland, whose country manager …
[Read more]The Cloud Computing Expo at Fairmont Hotel in san Jose, CA is fast approaching and I plan to be there to learn and meet the folks interested in Cloud Computing. If you plan to be there, dont miss the hands on Cloud Computing BootCamp, also being held at Fairmont hotel on 20th Nov. and is Free.
Led by Williamson, the Cloud Computing Bootcamp will illustrate all the major players and provide a hands-on program with configuration samples, live demos and working setups you can further adapt and play with.
Hope to see you there and chat about how you can leverage the Sun Cloud offerings to build applications for the cloud or build your own clouds.