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May
06
2008
May
06
2008
Thanks to all the attendees to the session on creative
programming with MySQL at CommunityOne.
As announced, the slides are online.
3.5M (PDF)
Enjoy!
May
04
2008
VirtualBox 1.6 is out. Note that now you can use Mac OS X and Solaris as a host platform. Naturally, having Mac OS X support excites me.
I tried installing a Ubuntu 8.04 server guest. Found a tiny issue - 64-bit guests aren’t supported yet :( So I pulled in the 32-bit ISO, and that installed just fine. Note that PAE support for guests exist now, and this is a good step in the right direction.
Sun’s building an OpenxVM community, which currently focus on xVM and xVM VirtualBox. It also harnesses technologies like Open Service Tag. All in all, I think a lot of MySQL users should be interested in virtualization, as there is a growing amount of hardware out there with many, many cores available for use.
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So what's it like now that Sun now owns MySQL? The executive
summary: a little weird. I was at the MySQL User Conference a
couple of weeks ago and had a chance to talk with a lot of people
in the community as well as many MySQL folks. Marten Mickos is
now the head of database products at Sun. It's not very hard to
figure out what Sun will do with MySQL products for the near
future--pretty much what MySQL was doing already.
The real question for a lot of people is what will happen with
databases like PostgreSQL and Derby. Sun has invested heavily in
both of them, and PostgreSQL in particular is now quite fast.
With the MySQL acquisition, Sun has an opportunity to run the
table with multiple offerings that cover both enterprise
applications as well as web and embedded. However, that would
mean cutting down the MySQL roadmap to concentrate, for example,
on scale-out rather than scale-up. It would also require thinking
big to combine with …
Seeing the recent stock market disaster, I wonder if it makes
sense to hire capable managers, when your company is hostage of
the stockholders mob.
The news delivered by Sun did not seem that bad, except for the
USA salesforce. Sun is growing everywhere else in the world, and
a slow US economy has punished the whole company out of
proportion. The reaction from the crowd is really
unbelievable.
On a related matter, Sun has announced the layoff of 2500 people.
What does it mean? Sun's strategy is based on growth, or so they
say. How can they grow if they start firing people?
Bah!
May
03
2008
Sun missed its earnings and sales estimates and as a result it
lost approximately 23% of its market capital. Even more
disturbing news is the announcement that Sun will be cutting 1500 to 2500 jobs. Eric Day raised
his concerns as to whether this job cut will affect MySQL hiring
to which Marten replied and pointed to several open positions
within MySQL.
Sun has an array of very interesting and useful technologies
under its hood. The amount of care Sun takes for its customers is
truly impressive and I hope MySQL will follow in Sun's foot
steps. Yesterday, I met with a Sun engagement architect and the
amount of interest he showed in the technical challenges my team
faces was …
May
02
2008
I couldn’t resist downloading NetBeans 6.1, with GlassFish and the MySQL bundle, the moment I found out it was released. Pulling it down while at the Star Alliance Gold lounge in Singapore was easy enough, and it only took me an hour (its a pretty big bundle - 164MB, as opposed to 6.0.1 where it only weighed in at 143MB for the OS X bundle).
Instead of the 4 packages in 6.0.1, I now only see 2 files - MySQL.prefPane (because we only fixed this in 5.0.51b, which probably didn’t make the release cut-off - the included version is 5.0.51a-community), and NetBeans IDE with MySQL.mpkg. The install is slated to take 526MB and takes a good two minutes.
I noticed that it doesn’t uninstall NetBeans 6.0.1, so my Applications folder now has two versions, including two versions of Glassfish (UR1 from …
[Read more]I’m headed to the OpenSolaris Developers Summit right now.
After that, I’ll be at CommunityOne, with the rest of the MySQL team. Just check out the schedule (its in PDF format though). Its truly packed, so if you’ve not signed up to come, do so, immediately. I’m also particularly interested in participating in the RedMonk Unconference. All in all, I think CommunityOne looks like it would be well suited for a week-long event, rather than a day-long event - so many places to be, so little time!
And after that, JavaOne! Its going to be packed all week long, but the good news is that I’ll be in downtown San …
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May
01
2008
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Programming databases is tricky. If you need the basic access only, any programming language can do. But when you want to get some advanced feature, you face difficult choices. If you are lucky, the feature you are looking for is available in a library compatible with your language of choice. But usually it happens that you are writing in Java, and your life-saving routine is only available in Perl, or you are writing in PHP and striving for features that are buried deep into a Java class. Hard choices. But it does not have to be that way. Sometimes, you can develop closer to the server, in such a way that any client, using any programming language, can access your extended routine. MySQL, although not as equipped with built-in features like some competitors, is nonetheless particularly suited for such … |
Hello, Sun!
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I am one of the 400 employees who, on January 16, 2008, awoke at the thundering words of Marten Mickos and Jonathan Schwartz, announcing that MySQL had been acquired by Sun for $1b. Theoretically, or arithmetically, I should be worth $2.5m, and so handle with care. :) Who am I? I am a database enthusiast, with a reputation in several open source places. I am known in the Perl and MySQL communities, and you may have seen me around during some conferences, talking about unusual hacks or making jokes in heavily accented English. |
I have another, historical blog, actually, with the same name, The Data Charmer, which has become my middle name.
My current job is MySQL …
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