Simon Phipps, chief open source officer at Sun Microsystems, has clarified the company's business model for open-source software, including its MySQL database, suggesting that Sun's revenue hinges on delivering, "for a fee, the means to create value between deploy and scale, for those who need it."
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I took a 1-hour long session (was supposed to be 2 hours, but my
planned agenda was exhausted) for students of engineering
colleges across Karnataka studying in colleges under
VTU. The
session was delivered via EDUSAT under the Sun
Microsystems- VTU EDUSAT e-learning programme.
It was fun. However, the fact that there was no interaction with
the students felt a little dumb. (I was speaking on the camera
which was beamed live)
These are my slides:
I also put together a short Quiz for them:
I took a 1-hour long session (was supposed to be 2 hours, but my
planned agenda was exhausted) for students of engineering
colleges across Karnataka studying in colleges under
VTU. The
session was delivered via EDUSAT under the Sun
Microsystems- VTU EDUSAT e-learning programme.
It was fun. However, the fact that there was no interaction with
the students felt a little dumb. (I was speaking on the camera
which was beamed live)
These are my slides:
I also put together a short Quiz for them:
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Sun has posted SPECjAppServer 2004 results for a full OpenSource stack including MySQL 5.0, GlassFish v2 U2 and OpenSolaris 2008.05 on Sun's 1U SunFire x4150. The setup uses two x4150 running GF and one running MySQL, all on OpenSolaris. Check out the detailed posts by … |
Scaling MySQL on a 256-way T5440 server using Solaris ZFS and Java 1.7
A new era
In the past few years, I published many articles using Oracle as a database server. As a former Sybase system administrator and former Informix employee, it was obviously not a matter of personal choice. It was just because the large majority of Sun's customers running databases were also Oracle customers.
This summer, in our 26 Sun Solution Centers worldwide, I observed a shift. Yes, we were still seeing older solutions based on DB2, Oracle, Sybase or Informix being evaluated on new Sun hardware. But every customer project manager, every partner, every software engineer working on a new information system design asked us : Can we architect this solution with MySQL ?
In many cases, if you dared to reply YES to this question, the next interrogation would be about the scalability of the MySQL engine.
This is why I …
[Read more]Somehow I must have missed this try and buy offer before. Evaluate the Sun Fire X4600 with PostgreSQL, MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server 2005. The Sun Fire X4600 M2 Server included in the program is available in two configurations. First configuration is 4 x Quad-Core with 16GB RAM and second configuration is with 8x Quad-Core (yes 32 cores in all) with 64GB RAM. Of course it only comes with two disks in it which means also need to "Try and Buy" the Sun StorageTek 2540 Array or the Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System with it.
Would love to see some real life deployment saturate 32-core Opteron system using only PostgreSQL or MySQL as the database system in …
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Presenting a topic to a new audience is a two ways learning experience. The attendees learn what the presenter came prepared to say, and in presence of an attentive audience, the presenter can learn something on the spot. During today's Boston MySQL meetup, I got two interesting ideas aboou how to improve MySQL Sandbox. |
I'm passing the torch to Dave Stokes
to manage the MySQL Certified Professionals LinkedIn Group. I'm
just not that involved in doing DBA work these days. My career is
moving further away from MySQL, plus San Diego isn't a big MySQL
town like some other parts of the country. I didn't want the
group to grow stagnant and Dave has been very gracious to take it
over.
Thanks Dave!MySQL DBA & Programming Blog by Mark Schoonover