Within hours of yesterday’s blog on a pure PHP driver, Georg Richter had been on the German PHP IRC channel as well as on efnet IRC. Georg wrote an FAQ in German.

“For MySQL’s PHP team (Ulf Wendel, Andrey Hristov and myself), the plan to publish a new library under the PHP license in March 2007 is not only a challenge and a programming task, but also an opportunity to improve upon what we already have“, Georg writes. “The new MySQL differentiation between Community and Enterprise gives us the possibility to speed up the implementation of features essential to PHP, without being as dependent on MySQL release cycles as before“, he concludes his overview.

Then, Georg provides this FAQ, based on the “partly …

On his blog, Jeff Nolan had a humorous photo from Oracle Open World conference this week.  I've seen some other variations out on Flickr (which as most people probably know is built on the open source LAMP stack and MySQL.)

After months of rumors, Oracle's finally come clean on their Linux strategy.  It's not Debian, it's not Ubuntu, but rather, is based on Red Hat Linux. Its good to see Oracle take an aggressive stand …

Oracle Announces The Same Enterprise Class Support For Linux As For Its Database, Oracle (Press Release)

Sourcefire Files Registration Statement for Initial Public Offering, Sourcefire (Press Release)

Red Hat ISV Partner Program Experiences Record Growth of 122% in 2006; Makes Plans for 2007, Red Hat (Press Release)

Fonality Introduces trixbox 2.0 Next-Gen Asterisk-Based Application Platform, Fonality (Press Release)

FiveRuns Announces Support for Oracle …

If you head over here: mysql on bkbits.net you can get a copy of the NDB team trees. This is where we push stuff before it hits the main MySQL trees so that we can get some extra testing in (also for when pulling from the main tree). So you can be relatively assured that this is going to work fairly well for NDB and have the latest bug fixes.

Of course, if anything is going to break here - it’s going to be NDB :)

This should allow you to get easy access to the latest-and-greatest NDB code.

At some point soon I’ll update my scripts that generate doxygen output (and builds) to do the -ndb trees.

enjoy!

There have been some interesting MySQL happenings lately. First we had the Enterprise/Community split. I’ll talk more about that in terms of distributions shipping it, as I’ll be liaising with them.

But today, I’m going to talk about Digg. I listen to Diggnation, a surprisingly funny podcast to keep track of the weekly Web happenings. But I’ve never actually paid the site a visit. Until today.

Its the epitome of Web 2.0. User driven content. Its not like Slashdot. I’ve seen many people compare to it, but it isn’t. Slashdot is for tech-content. Digg is for anything. Slashdot has a bunch of editors. Digg is user-edited.

And for users, if your stories get promoted to the front-page, you get ratings. The more ratings, the merrier, right? It probably also increases the trust model, as higher ratings usually mean that you’ve got good news sense. And we all know …

The Sage Group plc has signed a global agreement with MySQL AB which enables Sage to embed MySQL database technology into its world-wide product portfolio.

Talking to the PHP community members, I see a recurring theme:

How does MySQL integrate with PHP — both from a technical and from a licensing perspective?

MySQL provides several ways to integrate between PHP and MySQL, most notably the ext/mysql and ext/mysqli drivers for PHP. These rely on the GPL licensed libmysql library, which by its nature is not compatible with the PHP license. With our not-so-optimally-named “FOSS Exception” , we have extended the rights of our community to use MySQL together with a number of non-GPL FOSS licenses, including the PHP license. This solution works well for many in the PHP community.

But we want to do more:

We plan to develop a pure PHP driver for MySQL, to be licensed under the PHP license itself and donated to the PHP Group …

Although I have absolutely no idea how to create a video, I got a real kick out of the YouTube video Kaj posted earlier: "Do Babies Dream of Being Database Engineers?". And it got me thinking, "I wonder, just wonder, what the MySQL community could come up with if there was a contest for creating a MySQL video...?"

And, thus, after a quick approval from our fearless leader, Mårten, the MySQL Video Contest was born! And here are the rules, that I've just made up off the top of my head.

MySQL Video Contest Rules

1. Absolutely no bashing of other RDBMSs, at least not in bad taste... Make them funny, but not aggressive or derisive. That's not the MySQL way
2. Like it needs to be said, but no profanity of any kind
3. Publish your video to …

At the SDN Day on TechEd 06 Amsterdam I had the pleasure to make a short video with André Labahn from SAP. He's a member of the SDN/SAP team that tries to leverage the usage of scripting languages (PHP, Ruby) together with SAP software, mainly R/3 and other components. As you might know, SAP has some stakeholding into OpenSource, some time ago with their release of SAPDB as "MaxDB" which is now maintained by MySQL. Here's what André has to say about PHP & SAP:

The video is also available on sevenload.de.

Even if you have listed your name on the Participants page of mysqlcamp.org, you need to register.

Granted, the registration page says that all that’s needed to register is to send
Jay Pipes (jay@mysql.com) the following information:

Your Name
Your Company Name
City and State of Residence

And that’s it. So do it today! The conference is free and open to anyone who registers.