Infoworld published the 2008 Bossies, Best Of Open Source Software. There are 8 categories and none of them are database:
I had to look through several of them before I found the database category under Platforms and middleware. Slide 4 is the magic slide:
It says:
Database
While SQLite3 is extremely convenient for development and …
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High Performance MySQL, Second Edition
Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More
By Baron Schwartz , Peter
Zaitsev , Vadim Tkachenko , Jeremy
Zawodny , Arjen Lentz , Derek J.
Balling
Second Edition June 2008
Pages: 708
ISBN 10: 0-596-10171-6 | ISBN 13: 9780596101718
When I first read about this book, I figured many sections would be over my head. I was pleasantly surprised when I …
[Read more]Before I get to post my OSCON reflection I see I didn’t post this (which I reference).
At OSCON opening keynotes Tim O’Reilly Interviews Monty Widenius & Brian Aker. This provided some interesting answers in a Q & A session. Here is some of the discussion.
TO: So 6 months in. How is it with Sun?
BA: Really rewarding environment. My first question was? You are
going to send me free H/W. No H/W has been delivered yet, or
access to the masses, still hoping. Sun is a very engineering
driven company.
MW. Thanks God we didn’t go public. Starting to do closed sourced
components, going public this would have continued.
TO: Sun saved MySQL from public market/ insulated from
market.
MW: 6 months in, Sun still trying to figure out what they bought.
Sun has made a commitment to open source throughout the
organization. …
I was there in the meetup and my feeling was a mix about the same. It was nice to have Kaj here (for the first time) and listen to him about Sun's acquisition. On the other hand it was disheartening to see so few people from corporates turning up. It was almost negligible. I'm still positive on this and do expect many more people to turn up. There were a total of three talks in the meet and then we had some chit chat with people.
In his first talk, Kaj first greeted everybody in Hindi, Tamil and Kannada and many were delighted. Kaj touched various aspects of Sun's acquisition and also their on-boarding struggle. He also mentioned about MySQL considering Sun's liberal SCA in place of their stricter CLA. (I haven't gone through SCA to actually comment on it's benefits)
Second talk by Thava was on how to contribute code to …
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Hot on the heels of news that SquareSpace is using Oracle, comes news that LinkedIn is going whole hog with MySQL.
Actually, you could say that LinkedIn is buying into Sun. They are buying the MySQL Enterprise subscription and they'll be running MySQL on Sparc servers and Solaris 10. They've signed up for Sun Professional Services, MySQL Professional Services, and …
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I recently posted about the results of the EDB Open Source Survey. It doesn't look like the raw data is going to be released. I was also reading about an O'reilly survey that costs $350 to see. Not that I am opposed to them making money, but I wanted to see the results and I think there are a lot people who feel the same. I have no idea if my survey is anything like O'reilly's.
Anyway, I have created a new survey. It has about 10 demographics questions asking who you are, where you are, what kind of role you have, etc. The rest are related to databases and open source. ALL data, and I mean all of the raw results, will be made available to anyone who wants to see it. I will also do some analysis and I will make that data available to any who want to see that.
All questions on the survey are optional. Feel free to skip …
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