Si Chen just wrote about releasing opentaps 1.0.0, very timely just before the MySQL Conference although his suite can work with other databases too. Si spoke about opentaps at the MySQL Conference a few years ago, which is how I first met him. And he's still at it, good for him - so it's an active and progressing product/project. Excellent.

The opentaps project page is here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opentaps/

Don't know if it does (for instance) any business foo relevant for Australia yet, but asking won't hurt, and it's open source anyway so adding it is possible also. The joys of Open Source!

CrunchyFrog is a database navigator and query tool for
GNOME.

Currently PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQLite3 databases and LDAP servers are supported for browsing and querying.

I gave it quick try and it looks really promising. Gotta love a Monty Python reference in any case.

*Sigh*, well I won't be making it out to the conference this year:  My wife is due any day now with our third child.  Scheduling to fly to California next week just doesn't seem like it falls under the category of "supporting my wife."  

Top ten things I'll miss about the mysql conference 2008:

1. How replication is dead
2. Why 5.1 isn't stable yet
3. How wonderful Sun/Maria/Falcon/Cluster/6.x/Proxy is
4. Grilling Heikki about Innodb internals and bottlenecks
5. Wringing more information about high performance MySQL from Paul Tuckfield
6. The food!
7. Vendor / O'Reilly Swag
8. How great MySQL will run on Sun hardware
9. Conference Day 3 daze -- that part of the conference where your eyes start to glaze over. 
10. Getting really, really sick of talking about MySQL

Have fun everyone, see you next year! …

*Sigh*, well I won't be making it out to the conference this year:  My wife is due any day now with our third child.  Scheduling to fly to California next week just doesn't seem like it falls under the category of "supporting my wife."  

Top ten things I'll miss about the mysql conference 2008:

1. How replication is dead
2. Why 5.1 isn't stable yet
3. How wonderful Sun/Maria/Falcon/Cluster/6.x/Proxy is
4. Grilling Heikki about Innodb internals and bottlenecks
5. Wringing more information about high performance MySQL from Paul Tuckfield
6. The food!
7. Vendor / O'Reilly Swag
8. How great MySQL will run on Sun hardware
9. Conference Day 3 daze -- that part of the conference where your eyes start to glaze over. 
10. Getting really, really sick of talking about MySQL

Have fun everyone, see you next year! …

I keep getting these notes, sometimes automated, and sometimes not, from people asking me to blog about the Memcached Tutorial next week.

What is the problem?

It is sold out, and I have a good list of folks who want me to sneak them in already. I'd say there was space under the podium, but that gives me flashbacks to "Police Academy" films.

Maybe see if dormando wants to stand there while giving his half of the presentation?

I'll stick t the wireless microphone.

Anyways, I keep smiling each time I see the requests, knowing that few of them read the reports on how the conference is going (and props to Jay Pipes who has to constantly deal with people …

After our late night April Fool's dolphin stunt last week, I got roped into doing an early morning video shoot to preview some of the upcoming items for next week's MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara. I did this on about 4 hours sleep and so I look a bit like Gaius Baltar from Battlestar Galactica, but hopefully less conflicted and not as sleezy. Through the miracle of video editing they made me look semi-coherent, though some things about new storage engines and row-based replication ended up on the cutting room floor. There's a ton of new stuff coming... READ MORE

We will be having a Memcached Hackathon next tuesday the 15th, starting at 8:30. We have commandeered a BOF at the MySQL User's Conference and will be running the hackathon till late.

Current topics of interest:
Binary protocol for libmemcached
Storage Interface from Toru Maesaka

Discussions on #memcached on Freenode to set other agenda items.

BTW You do not need to be registered at the conference to come.

opentaps 1.0.0 Released

Last week, we officially released opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM version 1.0.0. This version marks a significant step forward for opentaps. Since the release of 0.9 nearly two years ago, opentaps has matured into a full-featured ERP and CRM suite with role-based applications designed for the sales force, customer service, warehouse, purchasing, and finance and accounting departments. We have greatly improved the usability of opentaps since the earlier versions, created a free online documentation site for it, and built a more solid foundation of automated tests that would allow us to deliver a higher quality product going forward.

A Unique Platform
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So, as I said before, I will be at the MySQL Conference next week.  I am renting a car this year so I don’t have to wait on cabs or deal with them at all.  So, I am mobile and being from a modern Southern US city, used to driving 30 minutes just to go to dinner.  So, where should we go?  Anything good in San Jose?  Should I go all the way to San Francisco?  I am willing to go where ever.  Help me locals, you are my only hope!

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Yes, the open-source database market is still relatively small (roughly $200 million in 2007, according to Gartner). But when The Wall Street Journal starts paying attention (subscription required), it's clear that the opportunity is huge. The Journal doesn't get paid to be sentimental.

Regardless, as Arjen Lentz opines,

...(D)isruptive technology tends to not take over the incumbent's market, but find or develop a completely new market, and indeed take over in that space. The question then is, does the incumbent's market remain intact, or does it change/evolve naturally and perhaps shrink or even completely disappear …