All things come to an end, and so do old software. By removing the older version of the EOL version 4.0 of MySQL from OpenSolaris, we encourage users to go on to 5.0. From build 79 MySQL 5.0 is now integrated into OpenSolaris. Btw, MySQL 4.0 will not go away unless the ARC case is accepted of course.

Please read the luculent Safe Harbor Statement at the bottom of this page....

We released our official earnings on Thursday last week, after pre-announcing the news one week prior alongside the announcement of our intent to acquire MySQL.

Our second quarter financial announcement came down to this: we doubled our profitability compared to a year ago, with $260 million in net income on revenues of $3.6 billion, while generating $336 million in cash from operations. We also repurchased $750 million of our own shares within the quarter, and reaffirmed our guidance for the full year of low to mid …

The LAMP stack consists of some complicated software, and this software from time to time will develop faults and security flaws. How do you keep yourself informed? Hope that the issues crop up on Digg, Slashdot? Well the best way is to join the Announce lists for each of the LAMP stack components.

The Announce lists are used by the developers of the different components of the LAMP stack to keep users informed of important events, like when a security flaw emerges or a new version of there software is released, etc.


The lists

The first one is dependent on the GNU/Linux distribution your running, in my case it is Archlinux, so I've subscribed to:

• http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-announce

Next in the LAMP stack is Apache, and you can find its …

Back in my formative years, during the tail end of the S&L crisis, I spent quite a bit of time working on financal software, including asset-liability management, risk management, and pool selection for the securitization of assets.

Although I’m a ‘data’ guy, for a layman I have a fairly good understanding of risk management in the financial industry. A side effect of that understanding is that I’m been following the ongoing risk management fiasco with more than a passing interest. (The media might call it a ‘credit crunch’ or a ’subprime contagion’, but as far as I can tell, it all boils down to a lack of attention to risk.) It’s also turning out to be a good source of entertainment.

Last week, …

Some friends, former customers/partners of mine from “previous lives”, family members and community folks have asked me what will happen to MySQL-the-product after MySQL-the-company is fully acquired by and integrated into Sun Microsystems.

Well, I don’t know! Those decisions are not mine to make.

I could speculate. (Frankly, I would probably be spot on, too.) But I’d rather not, and that’s not why I’ve resurrected this blog.

Many of the questions amounted to, “Should I stop using MySQL?” or, worse, “Will I have to stop using MySQL?” I decided to answer those here.

The questions were mostly from people who do not know much about Sun and who are afraid that the acquisition will result in mysqld becoming solely closed-source, proprietary, licensed software; afraid that they would have to pay if they do not today, or have to pay more if they do.

I cannot commit Sun any more than I can …

Before we go into how to set up master-slave replication in MySQL, let us talk about some of the reasons I have set up master-slave replication using MySQL. 1) Offload some of the queries from one server to another and spread the load: One of the biggest advantages to have master-slave set [...] …

Finally got around to creating a project on Sourceforge: MyHelper. Right now, it’s just some stored procedures and functions for determining data and index sizes for databases using the MyISAM and InnoDB engines. Each one is individually licensed (using the BSD license.) I have 2 more stored procedures to add (return a list of tables with no primary key and a list of tables with the primary key) but I haven’t committed my changes to Subversion yet because I’m still testing them. I’ll be adding more code as I refine the stuff I’ve written over the years (their current state is highly environment-specific so I need to “genericise” them - if that’s a word.)
A word about licensing. I’m opting to license each script/procedure/function individually. This is because the project, as a whole, is made up of individual pieces that may or may not have a dependency …

SpringSource acquires Covalent. XAware obtains $7.4m in additional funding. Sun announces details of its $1m open source awards. (and more)

SpringSource Acquires Covalent Technologies, SpringSource / Covalent Technologies (Press Release)

XAware Secures $7.4 Million in Additional Funding to Further its Open Source Data Integration Business Initiatives, XAware (Press Release)

Open Source Communities Announce Participation Details For Sun Sponsored $1Million Innovation Awards Program, Sun Microsystems (Press Release)

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It's only Tuesday and there have been two more acquisitions in the open source market. While these aren't huge deals on the scale of JBoss or MySQL, they do signify ongoing consolidation in the market. -Nokia acquires Trolltech -SpringSource acquires Covalent Both these acquisitions seem to make sense from a perspective of customers, users, and the companies on both sides. It's also interesting that these two recent deals show both the adoption of open source technology by a non-open source company and the combination of two open source companies to build a larger open source entity.... READ MORE

The last few days before the Sun-MySQL Integration Kickoff happening 29-31 January 2008 at Sun’s headquarters in Menlo Park, quite a few European MySQLers have approached me with concerns related to the potential danger of a skewed focus on the US in the integration discussions. After all, MySQL AB originates in Scandinavia and almost a majority of our employees work outside the US, so some aspects of MySQL AB should remain Scandinavian or European, even though we’re been acquired by a Silicon Valley based company.

While this geographic concern will remain on my agenda, yesterday evening provided some peace of mind on this account. Summoned by our Scandinavian CEO, a group of MySQLers (American and European) met at the Ikea restaurant in East Palo Alto.

Both the furniture and the food at Ikea looked much like in Gloms, Esbo (in my native Finland), or Kungens kurva close to Stockholm, or anywhere …