Oracle hasn't won many friends in open source communities since its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and Sun's array of open source assets, including MySQL, Java, and OpenOffice. Oracle seems bent on continuing this trend with the growing Hudson open source project.
Dec
03
2010
Nov
29
2010
Some time ago I was asked to do a study of our most popular open source projects to assess 1) what governance models are out there and 2) if the governance model has any effect on the project's success (such as size of developer community) on the one hand and on the other hand on the business of the related vendor(s). Some of the results are quite remarkable and have general applicability, so I wanted to share them here:
Nov
26
2010
The 451 Group's annual report on the state of the open source business world is out. Already the title: Control and Community suggests they are once again on top of what has been going on this year. Analyzing about 300 open source related businesses they not only "get it right", but were actually able to uncover some facts even I was unaware of and this impressed me a lot. If an analyst can dig up statistics to back up something that I already "intuitively" know in my heart, that is a useful service. But if they can make me go "ah, I didn't know that" on a topic I consider myself quite an expert in, the I'm impressed!
This is an analyst report, available for a price that would be completely unreasonable for a private person. I was pondering whether I should go begging for a free copy to satisfy my curiosity on the topic. But that wasn't necessary, as the …
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Nov
24
2010
Last week I announced internally that after my paternity leave ends next year, I will not be returning to Monty Program.
When I joined the company over a year ago I was immediately involved in drafting a project plan for the Open Database Alliance and its relation to MariaDB. We wanted to imitate the model of the Linux Foundation and Linux project, where the MariaDB project would be hosted by a non-profit organization where multiple vendors would collaborate and contribute. We wanted MariaDB to be a true community project, like most successful open source projects are - such as all other parts of the LAMP stack.
Nov
11
2010
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Back to the conference circuit after some rest. On December 1st I will be speaking under my new affiliation at Continuent in the MySQL track at the UKOUG conference. My topic is MySQL - Features for the enterprise and it will basically cover the main features of MySQL 5.5. This conference is the largest Oracle related event in Europe, and it is organized by users for other users. This year for the first time the conference hosts a MySQL dedicated track. It is a sort of epidemic. Most of the … |
Nov
05
2010
Starting with the great work of Yoshinori-san Using MySQL as a NoSQL – A story for exceeding 750,000 qps on a commodity server and Golan Zakai who posted Installing Dena’s HandlerSocket NoSQL plugin for MySQL on Centos I configured and tested HandlerSocket under Ubuntu 10.04 64bit.
NOTE: This machine already compiles MySQL and Drizzle. You should refer to appropriate source compile instructions for necessary dependencies.
# Get Software cd /some/path export DIR=`pwd` wget http://download.github.com/ahiguti-HandlerSocket-Plugin-for-MySQL-1.0.6-10-gd032ec0.tar.gz wget http://mysql.mirror.iweb.ca/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/mysql-5.1.52.tar.gz wget …[Read more]
Nov
03
2010
Links for today:
Community Rights and Community Wrongs
The Launch of the Document Foundation and the
Oxymoron of Corporate Controlled "Community" Projects
Andy Updegrove makes observations of the trend in hosting Open Source projects in non-profit foundations rather than one company, much boosted by Oracle's acquisition and abandonment of Sun's software assets.
Knowing that an organization is “safe” to join, and will be managed for the benefit of the many and not of the privileged few, is one of the key attributes and assurances of “openness.”
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Oct
25
2010
You have about 14 more hours to submit session proposals to the O’Reilly MySQL conference, which is soliciting sessions about all open-source databases: PostgreSQL, CouchDB, Riak, Hadoop, Firebird, you name it. The last-minute proposals are coming fast and furious, as usual, and we have a great selection to choose from, but we need more!
Related posts:
- Postgres folks, consider the 2011 MySQL conference
- Submit your proposals for MySQL conference 2010
- …
Oct
14
2010
Setting up of a good backup and recovery strategy is crucial for any serious MySQL implementation. This strategy can vary from site to site based on various factors including size of the database, rate of change, security needs, retention and other compliance policy etc. In general, it is also required from MySQL DBAs to have least possible impact on usability and performance of the database at the time of backup - i.e MySQL and its dependent applications should remain hot during backup.
Join MySQL backup experts from Zmanda for two webinars dedicated to hot backup of MySQL:
MySQL Backup Essentials: In this webinar, we will go over best practices for backing up live MySQL databases. We will also cover Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL product in detail, including a walk through the configuration and management processes. …
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Oct
12
2010
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Zimbra Desktop 2.0! This is a major milestone for the Zimbra team and includes significant feature and performance upgrades. The difference between Desktop 1.0 and 2.0 is enormous thanks to the millions of downloads, thousands of forum posts, and hundreds of bugs posted by Zimbra customers and community members.
As most readers of this blog know, Zimbra Desktop is a completely unique client. It’s the only free, cross-platform tool allowing you to meld your worlds on or offline – storing and syncing your email, …
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