Michael Tiemann's Cygnus Solutions held the open-source valuation record for nearly a decade at $674 million. A few weeks back, Sun broke that record by paying $1 billion for MySQL. So how long does Michael think MySQL will hold the record?
Not very long.
...I would not be surprised to see another $1B deal of some sort in the next 12-18 months. The reason is simple economics:
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From Business Week:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_07/b4071000908736.htm
The quote that really brought my intention to the article was
this:
Ballmer says: "Yahoo, the brand, will live."
What does this mean to me?
Microsoft is willing to dump $45 billion dollars into the market
to take the second position. Technology? They do not care one bit
about it. What Yahoo uses and develops is at odds with what
Microsoft promotes.
Whether redirects to MS's front pages will last long term is an
excellent question. I have some real doubts about that. It would
also seem that Yahoo could take a number of directions to poison
pill this.
Jabber Yahoo could move their IM to Jabber and open up the
valves of the IM market. Effectively commoditizing the IM …
I have almost always found that the Hsieh alogrithm for hashing
turns out to be the fast. So this morning while waiting for a
compile I popped it into Memcached to see what the improvement
would be:
With Hsieh:
Testing generate_pairs 2.396 [ ok ]
Testing generate_data 5.100 [ ok ]
Testing get_read 5.491 [ ok ]
Testing delete_generate 4.587 [ ok ]
Testing generate_buffer_data 1.361 [ ok ]
Testing delete_buffer 0.880 [ ok ]
Testing generate_data 4.984 [ ok ]
Testing mget_read 1.817 [ ok ]
Testing mget_read_result 1.743 [ ok ]
Testing mget_read_function 1.782 [ ok ]
Testing cleanup 0.046 [ ok ]
Testing generate_large_pairs 0.390 [ ok ]
Testing generate_data 39.899 [ ok ]
Testing generate_buffer_data 0.058 [ ok ]
Testing cleanup 0.001 [ ok ]
With default:
Testing generate_pairs 2.405 [ ok ]
Testing …
Welcome to the 83rd edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs.
Little things can make big differences. Archimedes (no blogger, but a very smart guy) said, “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world,” and With CLUE as (Select * from Random_Thought ORDER BY Common_Sense DESC) proves him right with a story of leverage: “This story is how changing one character in a 300 line stored procedure removed 90% of the impact of the worst single query on the entire server.”
On Third Abnormal Form, Paul McMillan shows that in SQL Server 2005, …
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Yesterday I starting testing PBXT using the DBT2 benchmark.
Following the implementation of durability and SELECT FOR UPDATE
for the engine I was more interested in the benchmark as a test
for stability and concurrency than performance. I was not
disappointed...
Which bug first?
Well I immediately ran into 3 bugs. Isn't it funny how bugs often
come in batches, which leaves you thinking: "Oh sh.. where do I
start?". Here's my advice: start with the bug that is most likely
to disappear if you fix the others!
A simple example, you have 2 bugs: an unexpected exception is
occurring, and you're loosing memory. First look for the memory
loss, because it may disappear when you fix the exception
(because you may be loosing memory in the error handler).
Take things one problem at time:
Another thing: once you have decided for one of the bugs, stick
with it (no matter how hard it gets) …
In some ways, MySQL is a victim of its own success. Because of the focus on reliability, performance, and ease-of-use, MySQL usage continues to grow at a heavy pace. This being the case, the demand for skilled MySQL pro’s has quickly outstripped the current supply. Go to monster and put in ‘mysql’ and you’ll get back thousands of hits. So if you’re wondering whether getting MySQL expertise as a DBA is a good investment, wonder no more.
Without a doubt, one great way to drink in lots of MySQL DBA knowledge is to attend the upcoming MySQL User’s Conference. At this year’s conference, there are more tracks than ever designed to help the DBA get a handle on security, performance tuning, backup and recovery, high-performance schema design, and much more. Plus, you’ll get to see some new tools we’ve been working on to …
[Read more]After some delay we are proud to present MySQL Proxy 0.6.1.
This is a pure bug-fix release and fixes some assert()oins and the win32 support. It was branched off in December and it took a while to clean up the windows package until it passed the tests.
Download it from:
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-proxy/index.html
Changes:
These three open-source databases, now in OpenSolaris SXDE 1/08, offer all the needed features for most of the applications out there.
"Three databases to run them all"...
... and of course, Sun offers solutions with commercial database vendors, like the Sun and Oracle's Enterprise Grid Solutions.
Sun Microsystems has released Solaris Express
Developer Edition 1/08, Sun's free OpenSolaris-based
distribution targeted at developers.
This release brings together integrated web stack (Apache, MySQL,
Ruby, Php, PostgreSQL), NetBeans 6.0, interoperability with Microsoft's
CIFS protocol, support for virtual machines via
Sun xVM hypervisor, based on technology
developed by the Xen
community, Sun HPC ClusterTools based on the Open MPI effort.
There are …
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During the last day of the Linux Conference Australia, I and
Colin had the choice between joining the crowd for the open day,
or meeting a semi-private invitation from Greg Lehey a well
known icon in the open source world. He organized a hackers
barbecue in his very isolated place, and we could not resist. In
his original invitation, Greg said that he lives "down the road",
without specifying how long the road is. It turned out that it's
a 90 minutes drive, which is an indication of the relative sense
of distance that you get in Australia.
In the Australian bush, Greg leads a quiet life with his wife,
his horses and dogs, and a few not so distant friends, dealing
occasionally with stray kangaroos invading his fields, and
brewing open source beer.
The barbecue met everybody's expectations, and so did Greg's
famous home brewed beer, thus stimulating that sort of hacker
talk …