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 really boycott Microsoft and other "non-free software" READ MORE

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 …

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 !

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