This week, I'm finishing up my book "Developing Web Applications using Perl, memcached, MySQL and Apache". I just finished up Chapter 1, which is the first chapter where I discuss several things such as how much things have changed in the last ten years with web development and Open Source in general. This lead me to write a small section about the future. I was pondering -- where are we going to be in ten years from now? What projects will be popular? This lead me even to a more specific question, and one that I would ask here: what is to become with the development of MySQL? What will be the official development branch of MySQL, and where is all the energy and excitement going to be around?

There is now one fork and one major branch of MySQL now that I will mention, both are exciting projects-- and neither of them is coming from official MySQL/Sun:

(The order of these is strictly alphabetic and not priority!)
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As mentioned previously, Monty Widenius is starting his new company based on some interesting premises. With Zak Greant they have co-authored a pamflet where they outline a blueprint for Open Source companies. In many ways this could be considered the "Dogme 95" of Open Source businesses:-)

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Reading “Test Center: Slacker databases break all the old rules” has finally inspired me to write this post, which I’ve been meaning to do for a while. The title of my post may be bold, but it is just one version of how things may go moving forward (and was meant to grab your attention). :)

First off, a few issues I have with the article mentioned above:

• “…tacking the two letters “db” onto a pile of code that breaks with the traditional relational model.” - Since when does a database need to be relational? Sure, relational databases are the most popular, but they are only a subset of all the possible database types (let’s not forget hierarchical or tuple stores).
• “None of them is right for everyone, and all of them are completely …

Finally we got our proposal approved for the the MySQL conference and Victor and I will be speaking on April 22 about Testing the cluster with ANSTE.

Today I come back from the dentist, if that wasn’t bad enough news, I get an email from Google AdWords titled Your Google AdWords Approval Status.

In the email, all my AdWords campaigns are now disapproved, because of:

SUGGESTIONS:
-> Ad Content: Please remove the following trademark from your ad:
mysql.

Yeah right. I can’t put the word ‘MySQL’ in my ads. How are people to now find me? It would appear that many ads have been pulled not just mine. Is this a proactive measure by Google? is this a complaint from the MySQL trademark holder Sun Microsystems?

I’d like any comment, feedback or suggestions on how one can proceed here.

It reminds me of the days CentOS advertised itself as an “Open source provider of a popular North American Operating System”, or something of that nature.

Overview

./sbtool --help
usage: ./sbtool [options]
 -o     --operation       (s) <> - what task to perform
   'info'     returns configuration options from a Sandbox
   'copy'     copies data from one Sandbox to another
   'ports'    lists ports used by the Sandbox
   'tree'     creates a replication tree
   'move'     moves a Sandbox to a different …

The MySQL marketplace today is far more complex then simply choosing between a particular version of MySQL that Sun/MySQL produces.
The MySQL server product in general is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v2, however you should carefully review the MySQL Legal Policies as a number of exceptions and different license agreements operate for companion tools such as MySQL Cluster, MySQL client libraries and documentation for example.

Looking into the MySQL ecosystem for products, I’ve produced the following categories:

• Sun/MySQL Official Products
  • MySQL Versions
• MySQL Variants
  • Community
  • Enterprise
  …

The March NY MySQL Meetup featured a presentation from Infobright, a data warehousing solution built on the MySQL Product.

With a pitch of “Simplicity, Scalability and low TCO” I became more impressed with the capability to delivery on these as the presentation proceeded. Here are some highlights.

• The company and product has been around for a few years. Infobright started as a compression engine to sit beside Teradata, providing a significant cost saving to clients, and allowing a two way data transfer between Teradata.
• In September 2008, a open source community edition was released, called ICE. (Which I didn’t know)
• The technology is based on a Rough Set theory, a mathematical approach
• Using a …

It seems January and February were just completely taken up by customer engagements. I don't know if it is due to the recession or what, but we who are selling MySQL are just very busy right now. Towards the end of February I finally got on top of my life again, and on the bright side, I took almost a full week off from work, just to get even with all the overtime I accumulated.

This is old news now, but I still want to make a note of these historical events for my own blog too. If you're like yawn... then don't read it. OTOH, seems like I'm in good company commenting on this this week :-)

So some weeks ago we were hit by the surprising news that Mårten will leave Sun, just a few days after …

Dear reader,

In a little over 3 weeks, April 2nd and 3rd, we’re organizing a Pentaho Partner Summit at the Quadrus Conference Center in Menlo Park near San Francisco.

If you are (as the invitation describes) an “Executive, luminary, current or prospective partner from around the world” and if you come over you’ll meet myself, Julian Hyde and perhaps a couple of other architects as well.  That is outside of a host of other interesting people like Zack Urlocker (MySQL) and of course Richard Daley our CEO. We’ll be doing a couple of lengthy sessions on Kettle and Mondrian …