Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world?s fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun's position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market. Today's announcement reaffirms Sun's position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world?s fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun's position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market. Today's announcement reaffirms Sun's position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world?s fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun's position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market. Today's announcement reaffirms Sun's position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor.

I'm usually pretty good with these things - I get a CfP invite and I blog about it to let more people know. I completely forgot in this case, must've been the xmas season. Luckily the CfP is still open for a few more days, so you can still get in a proposal if you're interested: http://dlw-europe.com/konferenzen/dlw08/cfp/index.html

This new conference is run by my friend Masoud Kamali of S&S Verlag, who is also responsible for the International PHP Conference (Frankfurt, every November) and quite a few other events. The Dynamic Languages conf will be held in Karlsruhe, that's just a bit further South from Frankfurt - easy to reach via ICE (high speed) train.

This conference is about scripting languages and related frameworks, optimisation/scaling, security and such. So, there's no specific database topic even. I made one …

So I managed to answer all those questions correctly and the US Border Control officer kindly let us into the country. It was easy since the questions were the same as the last time I visited the US in 2000. Filling this sheet is always a fun time, it makes me wonder wanna know wether there exist any statistics on how many terrorists and drug trafficants get caught by accidentally filling in the wrong box :-) Then of course there are some tricky questions, what if you are traveling to the US to engange in immoral but legal activities. From what I know sitting naked in the sauna would already be suspicious here ;-D

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Stroll on over to the DPM's minimalist homepage and grab the latest release tarball, export tarball, clone the git repo, or peruse gitweb.

While I did some porting work, this release has not been explicitly tested on all of the platforms yet. If there are bugs with a particular platform, please report.

This release fixes a lot of outstanding complaints I had with the power of the API, and many known obnoxious bugs and restrictions. Like the previous inability to listen on INADDR_ANY, or use unix domain sockets, etc. There are still a number of usability/troubleshooting gotchas when writing programs using DPM, but aside from the learning curve most of it should work now. There are no known crash bugs or memory leaks (aside from a "leak" in the dpml library under …

previously
Stroll on over to the DPM's minimalist homepage and grab the latest release tarball, export tarball, clone the git repo, or peruse gitweb.

While I did some porting work, this release has not been explicitly tested on all of the platforms yet. If there are bugs with a particular platform, please report.

This release fixes a lot of outstanding complaints I had with the power of the API, and many known obnoxious bugs and restrictions. Like the previous inability to listen on INADDR_ANY, or use unix domain sockets, etc. There are still a number of usability/troubleshooting gotchas when writing programs using DPM, but aside from the learning curve most of it should work now. There are no known crash bugs or memory leaks (aside from a "leak" in the dpml library under …

Hmm. I’ve spent about 31 hours in flight and in transit, to get to Orlando, Florida. Good news is that I’ve arrived, all safe and dandy.

Singapore Airlines is now flying the A340-500 to Los Angeles or San Francisco, from Singapore. Its truly got to be the best plane for long haul flights. Notice that you get direct flights to America? No more transiting in Narita. I was given a seat in Executive Economy Class (I wonder why? Maybe its because of my collected miles/status, as it used to and still does happen on United, a Star Alliance partner). What’s cool there? Power. Yes, nice, in-flight power, suitable for devices that support 110V (read: all modern laptop PSUs).

Food was great (new menus), and I tried the much recommended Singapore Sling, and realised that it tastes …

Well, none of my issues have been fixed yet but MySQL support is on top of it.

I've ran into many S1 bugs: all at the same time. Support has been able to help me identify them. Some of them have proposed fixes, some fixes are being tested in
5.0.54.

MySQL is by far the best Open source Database on the planet-support reflects that fact. I highly recommend getting a support contract to trouble shoot issues that make it into production, less learning the entire mysql code base and doing it yourself. (I know alot about the code-base but the 5 issues I am tracking was to much for me to debug alone. On top of that I don't know enough of the code base to make fixes to some of the bugs.)

If you do more then 30K selects per second across all your servers, get piece of mind that someone will do there best to address any issues that you can't figure out. Get a MySQL support contract today.

Thanks to the few people who pointed out a copyright infringement with the name 'MySQL Gadgets' for my tool. It has now been renamed 'MyQ Gadgets'. This is actually more appropriate (but hopefully not a violation of some other copyright), since I use the 'myq' prefix on my MySQL scripts as an easy, unique prefix for command line tab completion in bash.