In summary: Who: you, me, MySQL/Sun What: MySQL User Group with free swag, food, and a short workshop to boot. When: 7-9 pm, Monday March 10th Where: MIT Building E-51, room 372 Why: why the heck not! Because Sun just bought MySQL, and because there’s a user group each month. How: RSVP optional but requested [...]

I got first Sun/MySQL Newsletter Today which among other things lead to the site publishing among other things links to various stuff related to Sun and MySQL and among other things - These Benchmarks

This may be great piece of Benchmarks for Sales and Marketing needs as they show sun stuff is so much cooler but they are so unusable if you really want to take informed decision and pick best of the component level.

As you can see Everything - Hardware, Virtualization, OS, Database Server, Web Server are all different.
This pretty much means you have no clue on what is the best on the component level. May be Sun would stack would get even better results on these Xeons ? or is it "Leading Virtualization Software" used with Windows is a crap ? …

• The University of Tokyo and Sun start Research on HPC and Web-based Languages
• Sun and Chinese …

A second (after Open eHealth) Open Source industry announcement today.

Geert pinged me to let us know he pinpointed a date for the next MySQL user group.
Next month Tuesday, March 18, 2008 around 1900ish Cafe Sport Leuven

Ack here

He promised to provide free Sun workstations to all women who were at all the previous editions if they show up again.

We had a little champaign toast in our exec staff meeting when the news came across that Sun's acquisition of MySQL was complete.  Congratulations to all the MySQL and Sun employees who went the extra mile to make this happen in record time.  I especially appreciate the efforts that Sun's legal staff has gone to in order to accomodate the open source philosophy of MySQL.  While there are still a few details to work out, I am very pleased with all of our integration work.  It will be an exciting time and there's great opportunity for MySQL to continue to grow inside of Sun.  We also had a toast to Marten Mickos our CEO who is unfailingly humble and deserves everyone's thanks for building MySQL into such a successful company. 

Note that Sun is very clear that we will continue to support all …

Streaming SQL and OLAP are two of the most interesting and powerful paradigms in data processing. OLAP is a well-established technique for analyzing large databases of historic data. Streaming SQL is a more recent innovation, that applies the declarative power of the SQL language to the problem of managing data in motion.

So, what happens when you combine OLAP with Streaming SQL? The combination is capable of solving some business problems that can't be solved any other way. OLAP is usually hampered by conventional ETL techniques: it is difficult to keep the data warehouse up to date, because batch-based ETL processes are only efficient when dealing with a few hours or days of data. OLAP engines excel at comparisons between time periods (say, this quarter compared to the same quarter last year) or comparable …

Not sure during my vacation which part of the creative brain has taken over, but I’ve become rather obsessed with marketing graphics and associated words being used across the MySQL and Sun MySQL websites, (See previous examples here and here).

Here are a number of more interesting references from the front page of the www.mysql.com site.

• The MySQL website now has a MySQL/Sun logo, noting it starts with the MySQL logo first.
• MySQL & SUN Come together. Freedom & Innovation Fast, innovative, open database solution now with world class service and support (dolphin jumping at sunset)
• Unlimited Possibilities. Deploy an unlimited number of MySQL Enterprise …

Yesterday I mentioned the new The official Sun-MySQL WebSite. It interested me with the navigation, graphics and content used to describe MySQL.

Greg of One Free Voice in a comment raised a very valid question, he could not find the MySQL Reference Manual, see comments. (I should also point out Greg it is no shame to reference the MySQL manual even daily, I’m an expert in the field and I easily reference the manual multiple times a week, and for reference the single most important page for me is Option and Variable Reference. I’ve also forgotten when using multiple languages in MySQL what is OFF/ON, simple solution is in the mysql client go SELECT ON; and see it it’s 1 or 0.)

Well, I …

While catching up on some interesting chat on IRC today, I decided to watch the Alan Cox video series that Red Hat Magazine recently placed online.

In Alan Cox and the state of free software:

• Alan speaks about software patents, as a problem for free software. Lots are starting to understand that they don’t work and they violate international treaties.
• Alan talks about political systems - so you can’t get free software into government or schools, because of certain vendors that they choose. Approved suppliers cause grief, when they only supply proprietary software.
• Alan talks about the OpenDocument Format and OOXML mess, and it confuses people, who want standards (FUD).
• A challenge now, seems to be that there are a large number of free software users now, who are not …