Now I want to be Sarah Lacy's biggest fan. (Eat your heart out, Dave.) Sarah politely tells me that I'm waffling on calling a spade a spade.

Or, in this case, a weak open source play a "weak open source play."

It started with the Ingres announcement, but it's really much more than that. There's a thought out there, as Sarah captures in her thoughtful blog post, that being "the open source alternative" is enough. Get out the gate first, as Dave has argued, and you win. Quoth Dave:

Open source is an interesting animal in that first-mover advantage seems to turn …

I built a simple ODBC program that attempts to connect to a data source and tells you whether the connection succeeded or not.

It works. Yay. I also moved the example config directory to the example directory, since that's what they are.

Quick, if there is a fan of this blog out there somewhere with money to burn who always wanted to show appreciation, buy me this!

Man that is pretty, and would be great for working on some PocketPC MySQL stuff.

In the MySQL 5 Contest, this week's iPod nano winner is.... Christian Hammers!
Christian has been very active with MySQL for a number of years, mainly as the MySQL package maintainer for Debian Linux.
Congrats Christian, enjoy the wonders of the nano and keep up the excellent work - thanks!

In the MySQL 5 Contest, this week's iPod nano winner is.... Christian Hammers!
Christian has been very active with MySQL for a number of years, mainly as the MySQL package maintainer for Debian Linux.
Congrats Christian, enjoy the wonders of the nano and keep up the excellent work - thanks!

We're coming into the home stretch in Florian Mueller's long standing campaign against software patents.  Florian, who has been a tireless campaigner with the www.nosoftwarepatents.com web site, helped ensure a defensive victory against software patents in Europe earlier this year.  Although there were a couple of times when even Florian was pessimistic, there is no doubt that his insight, efforts and perseverance helped bring things to a success.  Recently, Florian (and the nosoftwarepatents.com campaign) were recognized as one of the most influential individuals in the EV50 from …

This is the last day of the OpenDBcon, and it's been fun. Combined with the International PHP Conference in Frankfurt, it's an interesting crowd. I've had nice talks with people from the other OSS DBs, such as Gregory Burd (BerkelyDB, Sleepycat), Josh Berkus, Gavin Sherry and Peter Eisentraut (PostgreSQL), Fred Toussi (HSQLDB), Dan Debrunner (Derby), and others from Firebird, SQLite and Ingres (sorry, I put my cards in my suitcase already and my brain is on overload from all the names).

There of course also other people from MySQL AB here, I was able to catch up with "my" Community VP Kaj, and also Lenz Grimmer who be focusing on MySQL Community in Europe from December. Lenz has been a key member in our build engineering team, many of you will know his name already from release announcement messages and build bug issues.

Brian Aker made a brief stopover here while …

In lunching with an old Oracle Friend, the topic turned to Oracle 10g Express Edition, and we discussed the pros and cons for organisations. The first thing he asked me was, “Have you tried loading the database larger then the 4G limit yet”. Some People?

In general the consensus seemed that it was viable for a small organisation, good for a startup company to get into a no cost entry solution, but appealing to those venture capitalists as you have a definite growth pattern.

I’m warming to more actively pursing Oracle 10g Express Edition, especially with HTMLDB, and at present while preparing to submit a paper for an upcoming Open Source conference which I hope is accepted, I’ve allocated some time on the significant topic of Open Source Verses Free. Stay tuned.

It dawned on me later in the day to more closely investigate the Oracle RPM installation and where exactly everything went in the FileSystem. I was surprised …

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