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 …

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.

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.

Many people know I work for MySQL (now a part of Sun Microsystems). Since working in the team that brings you www.mysql.com and its related sites, I've been able to get access to pre-release versions of all of the software that MySQL make. I have tried to keep pretty quiet about what I do for a day job - mainly because I didn't think anyone would be all that interested. I've since found out that people are intensely interested in what we do behind the scenes at MySQL.com. So I figured I should probably let people in on a few secrets - at least those that are for public disclosure.

I'm not sure how often I'll be blogging, or what about, but I hope you will find it interesting.

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Hello,

A couple of days after the MySQL User Conference Japan, there was a MySQL event in Delhi on November 3rd and in Mumbai on November 4th.
Although it was right after the national holiday in India, lots of people attended these events.  We very much appreciate those who took time to come over the venue!

During the event, David Axmark (MySQL Co-Founder), Brian Aker (Director of Technology), Jimmy Guerrero (Sr. Product Marketing Manager) and Hiromasa Yazaki (Director of Asia Pacific MySQL Business) delivered technical presentations for wide range of topics including:

- State of MySQL,
- Licensing and Introduction to MySQL products
- Solving Common MySQL DBA Challenges
- Everything you need to know about MySQL5.1
- MySQL Enterprise Tools: Workbench, Query Analyzer and Proxy
- Application Clustering

We hope we will have a next chance soon to visit India again !

A compilation of today's news of interest:

Brian Aker delivers the keynote speech at OpenSQL Camp: State of the Open Source Databases. The presentation begins with a disclaimer:
“There is no way I’m going to tell you exactly where the future of databases go. We have way too many egos in the room to ever even begin a discussion…”
and ends with Aker saying,
“What the hell does that mean?”

View the video online at
http://technocation.org/node/649/play
or download the 42.6 MB Flash video file (.flv) directly at http://technocation.org/node/649/download.

My summary: …

Kudos to Baron Schwartz, who has shown everyone that you can organize a conference from scratch, without the logistics of a company. He has motivated other people in the community and received spontaneous help, which in turn became a web site, sponsor donations, free food for the participants, T-shirt, bags, internet connection, and a glorious feeling of camaraderie throughout the event.
Well done, Baron!

The picture shows a surprised Baron holding a T-shirt covered with "thank you Baron"s, secretly signed by all participants and finally awarded to him in public.

The MySQL 5.1 GA Release will be on or about Dec. 6th, 2008.

How do I know?
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