OSDC registrations are still open - did I mention we crossed the 200? For just $325 you get the 3 full days of the main conference (4 tracks for most of the time), including coffee/tea/lunches and the conference dinner on Wednesday evening, which will be a great event in its own right with ample good food, drink, Paul Fenwick's illustrated history of failure, and more.
The main program has a fab selection of speakers and topics - coz that's what you're there for, right?

Knowing we'll have 200+ geeks who gets trembling hands if they don't pick up their email (do check out my session on handling email and task overload ;-), we have wireless access throughout the conference area, basically the ground floor of the hotel is a giant hotspot. With thanks to Linux Australia for lending us a …

Yes, it may seem rather strange to the readers but MySQL has a booth at this week’s Oracle Open World 2007 and I’m here in San Francisco Wednesday and Thursday. If your in SF come in and say hi. Check out the Official Press Release and MySQL listed Oracle Resources for this conference.

An interesting recent report Oracle Users Indicate Increase in Use of Open Source sheds some light of the significance of MySQL within the Oracle Community.

The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) has released its second major research study focusing on open source adoption trends, “Open Source in the Enterprise: New Software Disrupts the …

mysql connector/odbc 3.51.22 is available, still keeping to that mostly-monthly schedule. there has actually been an slight increase in the bug count to a little over 70. we went back through all of the bugs filed against the now-defunct 5.0 version, and that turned up some that still appeared in 3.51.

the next release of the 5.1 branch is still imminent. it has taken a little longer than planned to get the new windows setup library integrated.

Here at OpenWorld Oracle hosted a round table on its open source strategy earlier today. Here’s what happened as it happened, including Berkeley DB, Oracle VM, InnoDB, and what Oracle really thinks of MySQL. NB All comments are paraphrased unless direct quote marks are used.

The players:
Ken Jacobs, VP of product strategy, server technologies division.
Omar Tazi, chief open source evangelist
Mike Olson, VP embedded technology, former Sleepycat CEO
Ed Screven, chief corporate architect
(Moderating) Monica Kumar, senior director product marketing, Linux and open source
Wim Coekaerts, VP of Linux engineering, corporate architecture

MK: How does Berkeley DB fit into the product portfolio? Any changes since acquired by Oracle?

MO: Berkeley DB is aimed at a very different kind of user. Built by programmers for programmers providing Low level persistence. Distributed …

Here at OpenWorld Oracle hosted a round table on its open source strategy earlier today. Here’s what happened as it happened, including Oracle?s engagement with open source communities and contributions to Linux and open source middleware.
NB All comments are paraphrased unless direct quote marks are used.

The players:
Ken Jacobs, VP of product strategy, server technologies division.
Omar Tazi, chief open source evangelist
Mike Olson, VP embedded technology, former Sleepycat CEO
Ed Screven, chief corporate architect
(Moderating) Monica Kumar, senior director product marketing, Linux and open source
Wim Coekaerts, VP of Linux engineering, corporate architecture

MK: How does Oracle view open source?

ES: Oracle consumes open source technology. It doesn’t look at it as something that’s good or bad or contradictory to its business model, it’s something …

The patch for SHOW PROFILE has been ported to MySQL 5.1.
It was not an easy transition. The initial testing went quite bad, until Chad Miller decided he had enough and rewrote 80% of the code, leaving very little of what was initially provided by Jeremy Cole.
The new code works quite well, and it has some improvements, compared to the 5.0 implementation. It is currently under review, and depending of its outcome, we may decide to backport this patch to 5.0 as well.
If you want to give it a try, you need to download the source code and follow the instructions.
The good news is that SHOW PROFILES seems to be working fine with all the new features introduced in MySQL 5.1. Partitions, row-based binlog, table logs, work without side effects.
I am especially pleased of noting …

By Jimmy Guterman

A member of the Radar team, typing on his iPhone, just wrote me that he was at SCO when in fact he was at SFO. That amusing typo made me wonder what SCO, which attempted to convince courts that it owned the unownable, was up to now, in its Chapter 11 iteration.

As Tim wrote here more than two years ago, SCO "used a lightning strike that was both heavy-handed and underhanded to try to leverage its power ... but ultimately the open-source community will prevail. Paris killed Achilles, remember, but Troy still lost." (I'm a sucker for Homer references.) So, what is the big news nowadays, according to the SCO website? It's a daylight savings time patch! And, in keeping with the company's apparent new belief in …

Ever sine I wrote Open Source Distributed Computing: Yahoo's Hadoop Support back in July, interest in Hadoop and Yahoo's work has been on the rise. So I started to get to know the Hadoop team at Yahoo a bit better and help them figure out how to tell more of the story.

We decided that it'd make sense to have a new blog on the Yahoo! Developer Network where we can collect & post news, tips, announcements, videos, and anything else related to Hadoop and distributed computing work.

To kick off the blog, which we're calling Hadoop and Distributed Computing at Yahoo!, I sat down with Eric Baldeschwieler ("Eric14") to do …

It had to happen (and not just because Savio asked when it would happen). Today Red Hat (which seems to be making a lot of noise during Oracle's OpenWorld event :-) and Hyperic joined forces to create a common systems management platform. The ice between the two has thawed at last:

For years, the JBoss Operations Network [JON] team has been developing code on the Hyperic platform. Red Hat will be contributing its updates and enhancements to this new open source project. Both companies will work to maintain, govern and extend management capabilities within the new open source systems management platform project. Additionally, Hyperic and Red Hat will work jointly to include this base in both future Hyperic …

The market for server virtualization software appears to have gotten a whole lot more crowded this week. Not only did Oracle announce free server virtualization software at the Oracle Open World conference, but Microsoft and VMWare also made announcements of competing free offerings. And this morning at Oracle OpenWorld Sun announced their plans for virtualization also, known as xVM with support from Intel, AMD, Symantec and MySQL among others. Rich Green, head of Software at Sun, demonstrated Sun's xVM virtualization server and the xVM Ops Center management software console with a live demo deploying a workload to some Sun servers... READ MORE