Last year open source analyst Michael Coté of Redmonk coined the term Little Four to describe four up-and-coming open source management vendors and as a foil to the Big Four of systems management.
In the open source space, the 4 names that come up each time ? usually from people I?m talking with even before I say anything ? are: Zenoss, Hyperic, GroundWorks, and openQRM.
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[Read more]I'm hosting a MySQL Tour event in Helsinki, probably this is the last stop on the tour so it will end in the same city where MySQL got started. If you are nearby, please pop in!
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MySQL Tour visits Open Tuesday in Helsinki May 6th
This winter we haven't had as many Open Tuesday meetings as we
had last year,
but we will finish off the season with meeting Sun and MySQL on
May 6th at
18:00, in the usual place Club Ahjo, Bulevardi 4, Helsinki.
After our late night April Fool's dolphin stunt last week, I got roped into doing an early morning video shoot to preview some of the upcoming items for next week's MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara. I did this on about 4 hours sleep and so I look a bit like Gaius Baltar from Battlestar Galactica, but hopefully less conflicted and not as sleezy. Through the miracle of video editing they made me look semi-coherent, though some things about new storage engines and row-based replication ended up on the cutting room floor. There's a ton of new stuff coming... READ MORE
Worried about Backup and Recovery of your MySQL Databases? MySQL Backup school from Zmanda provides hands on and in depth training on Backup and Recovery of MySQL. Just sign up and show up with your laptop. More information available here.
This week’s Open Source Business Conference was a strange meeting of Enterprise IT users, venture capitalists, and free software entrepreneurs. The opening keynote was delivered by Red Hat’s freshly minted CEO Jim Whitehurst who gave a very modest speech noting that while Red Hat has been a leading open source company they have not necessarily been an open source leader. Whitehurst’s presentation lacked anything especially insightful or noteworthy and he has the advantage of being the new guy so he’s off the hook for anything that might have happened before he took the job.
What is apparent Red Hat’s no longer exciting. They’ve crossed over to …
[Read more]The MySQL Workbench team has released the latest Release Candidate 5.0.15 of their new DBMS modeling tool. This includes quite a few recent bug fixes and it's now rapidly approaching the GA status. The team continues on to fix all the minor nits out there so keep your feedback coming. Heck, they'll probably have a new version by the time I post this. If you've never used a database modeling tool or have been put off by the cost or complexity of these tools in the past, you should try MySQL Workbench. Mike Zinner and his team have focused on... READ MORE
EnterpriseDB just raised $10M in Series C financing. IBM joined the list of investors including Fidelity Ventures, Valhalla Partners and Charles River Ventures. To date, EnterpriseDB has raised $37.5M (compared to the $39M that MySQL had raised in total after Series C). EnterpriseDB uses the slogan "The Oracle-compatible database company". While I wish Andy and the folks at EnterpriseDB the best, the challenge is that Oracle's high end products aren't in danger of losing to OSS competition. Next, in the majority of Oracle deals, Oracle isn't selling a database anymore. They are selling a database, an application server, tools and... READ MORE
If you are part of a big company and would like to recommend to
them a list of open-source and cheap commercial alternatives, I
have compiled a list that I use for my company.
These options might make your company more competitive in certain
markets and might let you react faster to changes.
Here is the list:
Database - DataWarehouse
InfoBright - Commercial DataWarehouse Engine
(highly recommended) that runs inside MySQL. review about it
EnterpriseDB - Commercial Enterprise Scale
Database that runs inside PostgreSQL
Vertica - A very high-scale, …
Today Sun and Zmanda announced our agreement to deliver a comprehensive, global data backup and recovery solution for MySQL Enterprise subscribers. Starting April 1st, MySQL Enterprise customers will be able to purchase ZRM for MySQL directly from Sun worldwide.
I think Zack’s comment in the press release captures the rationale for the deal:
“Protecting corporate data through effective backup and recovery is one of the most crucial tasks for a database administrator, and it can be a complex undertaking — especially for today’s large Web-scale applications,” said Zack Urlocker, VP of products, Sun Microsystems database group. “MySQL users have told us that global backup and recovery is very important to them, and we are thrilled that we can now offer ZRM for MySQL as an easy-to-use solution for protecting all of their MySQL data.”
Of …
[Read more]North Bridge, a leading Venture Capital firm has launched a survey on the Future of Open Source. Results from the survey will be announced at a panel session at InfoWorld's OSBC conference in San Francisco March 25-26. The session is hosted by Michael Skok of North Bridge and panelists include Marten Mickos from MySQL, John Roberts from SugarCRM and Mark Shuttleworth from Canonical among others.... READ MORE