Tonight’s New York PHP community meeting was a talk by Philip Antoniades the MySQL Systems Engineering Manager.
With an interesting topic opener “A New Hope” I could not resist to hear Philip’s official MySQL presentation.
Some small points I took away from the presentation.
- Sun is committed to Postgres with Josh Berkus and a team of 20 people.
- Solaris.next is the next version of Sun, I thought that was a cool internal name, be it obvious
- A marketing slide of the highest traffic websites listed Meebo, yousendit, alexaholic, techcrunch, feedburneer, istockphoto and vimeo as reported by Pingdom. Not sure were they get their data, but Google, Yahoo, FaceBook, Wikipedia, MySpace, Fotolog are sites I think of as high traffic. Indeed 3 of these listed sites I’ve never heard of. …