Ronald Bradford, an Oracle ACE Director has been busy working with database consulting, book writing (EffectiveMySQL) while traveling and speaking around the world in support of MySQL. I was able to take some of his time to get an interview on this thoughts about theMySQL Connect conference.
Keith Larson: What where your thoughts when you heard that
Oracle was going to provide the community the MySQL Conference
?
Ronald Bradford: Oracle …
The MySQL Connect Content Catalog is now live and you can check out the great program the content committee put together for you.
We received a lot of very good submissions during the call for papers and we’d like to thank you all again for those, it was a very difficult job to choose.
Overall MySQL Connect will in two days include:
MySQL Innovation Day held on June 5, 2012 was a great event for the MySQL engineers, users and customers to gather, share and network. I was able to get a few minutes with Tomas Ulin, Vice President of MySQL Engineering at Oracle, to ask him some questions. Here are the highlights of my interview with Tomas.
Monica: This was the first MySQL Innovation Day, correct? Why now, what was the strategy behind hosting this kind of event?
Tomas: In the last year, we have rolled out an incredible number of MySQL events worldwide – some targeted at developers that are new to MySQL and others for the MySQL savvy. At the MySQL Innovation Day, our first event of this kind,, we had a number of our key engineers presenting lightning talks delivering previews of key new features as well as discussing roadmap. …
[Read more]The MySQL Connect conference is taking place September 29-30 in San Francisco. We asked a few questions about the event to Oracle’s VP of MySQL Engineering Tomas Ulin.
Hi Tomas, to start with, what is MySQL Connect?
A: MySQL Connect is a conference delivered by Oracle, with and for the MySQL Community. We’ll have over 60 technical breakout sessions, Birds-of-a-feather sessions and Hands-On labs running throughout the two days, plus the keynotes. So it’s a fantastic opportunity to learn a huge amount in only two days, and to network with Oracle engineers, users, customers and partners.
When will the program be available online?
A: The call for papers ended May 6 and we got an amazing response. The content committee has been working …
[Read more]A big thanks goes out to everyone involved with the MySQL Connect Content Committee. We had a great response to the call for papers and realize that it took a considerable amount of time and effort to review the submitted sessions and BOFs. While Oracle employees aided with this effort, the MySQL Community deserves to be acknowledged for the time they took out of their busy schedules to help with our conference. Their input was invaluable to the support of the MySQL Community. Continued support such as this from the community is another reason that MySQL continues to be #1 open source database. We'll keep you posted as we finalize and publish the sessions, BoFs and HOLs for MySQL Connect.
Thanks to the following committee members:
MySQL Community:
[Read more]The MySQL Connect Call for Papers closes on May 6 so you only have a few days left to submit your session proposals! Thanks to all of you who already submitted conference sessions and BOFs.
MySQL Connect represents a tremendous opportunity for you to present your real-world experience and share your expertise and best practices with the MySQL community.
Interested in sponsorship and exhibit opportunities? You will find more information here.
We look forward to hearing from you!
The MySQL Connect Call for Papers opened last Monday. Thanks to all of you who already submitted conference sessions and BOFs.
The CFP is running until May 6; if you have not submitted session proposals yet, you have about 2 weeks left to do so.
Interested in sponsorship and exhibit opportunities? You will find more information here.
We look forward to hearing from you!
MySQL Connect will take place in San Francisco September 29 and 30; you can read the Press Release here.
The call for papers is open until May 6, submit your sessions now!
This is your chance to present your real-world experience and share your expertise and best practices with the MySQL community.
The conference includes six tracks: Performance and Scalability, High Availability, Cloud Computing, Architecture and Design, Database Administration, and Application Development.
You can submit conference sessions as well as BOF (Birds-of-a-Feather) sessions. We look forward to hearing from you!
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The history and accomplishments attributed to VistA, the
Veterans
Administration's core administrative software, mark it as one of
the
most impressive software projects in history. Still, lots of
smart
people in the health care field deprecate VistA and cast doubt
that it
could ever be widely adopted. Having spent some time with people
on
both sides, I'll look at their arguments in this blog, and
then
summarize other talks I heard today at the
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Convention
health care track.
Yesterday, as
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described in my previous blog, we heard an overview of trends
in
health care and its open source side in particular. Two open
source
free software projects offering electronic health records
were
presented, …
If the recent debate about open core licensing has proven one thing, it is that the issue of combining proprietary and open source code continues to be a controversial one.
It ought to be simple: either the software meets the Open Source Definition or it does not. But it is not always easy to tell what license is being used, and in the case of software being delivered as a service, does it matter anyway?
The ability to deliver software as a hosted service enables some companies that are claimed to be 100% open source to offer customers software for which the source code is not available. Coincidentally, James Dixon has this week highlighted one …
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