I have not been at CeBit for quite a while, but this year I will be there as a regular visitor this Thursday (6th of March). If you would like to meet with me, please send me an email or ping me via IM/Skype! I look forward to walking around the hallways, visiting my new employer's booth and finding out what other Open Source presences and activities there will be.
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One of the nice, and funny things about working on the MySQL deal is that we took turns saying: "I like how you solved this problem, tell me more!" The deal closed; learning time starts... Jay Pipes is Mr MySQL Forge and he just released Forge 2, check out his announcement and Guiseppe's additional commentary ([1], [2]). Maybe we can invite Jay (et al.) for a presentation at a future … |
Over the past couple of days Sun has been getting a lot of feedback on it's behaviour with open source.
So there is Amanda McPherson trying to teach Sun that the L in LAMP really stands for Linux.
And then there was Roy T. Fielding quiting the Open Solaris
community.
I'm still wondering why a company that once bought StarDivision
because it was cheaper to buy the company than to pay licenses
for similar functionality, keeps maintining their own kernel
stack rather than contributing to one that is way more popular
and as a much larger userbase.
Its not like they have a die hard community they will loose, it's
not like they will loose customers over it. When Sun says that
Linux is the new …
I came home very tired yesterday, just walking around as a big
MySQL billboard and I left with mixed feelings really.
First feelings were Happiness + Anger (=Love??). I had a nice
dinner with Bruce and Magnus (PostgreSQL) on Thursday, met others
at their booth and attended a few talks both Saturday and Sunday.
I'm interested in their stuff, I do like PostgreSQL, just like
probably everyone else in MySQL. But, I got very angry about 2
remarks made in the DevRoom: "MySQL loses data" and the infamous
and idiotic "MySQL has no transactions". FFS! The latter was
corrected on the spot, that REALLY pissed me off (remark made by
non-PostgreSQL crew btw).
Anyway, overall, I did like what I was hearing, the project is
going well, and lots of cool stuff coming in! Very nice! Funny
thing though: "Who's using Partitioning?", one guy (as far as I
could see) put up his finger.
Next feeling: Amazed! Drupal! I don't like PHP, bah, …
Since almost a year now, we host a weekly training session for our engineers on Thursday (14:00 UTC winter time), coined the "MySQL University". While it's primary purpose is to share and distribute knowledge about a wide variety of topics relevant to our own developers, many of the sessions are of general interest for developers on other projects as well.
Therefore we hold this sessions in the public and everybody is welcome to attend! You can listen to the presentation via an OGG Audio stream, questions can be posted via IRC on the #mysql-university channel on freenode.net. The audio file and IRC log will be saved, so you can also listen to past university sessions at a later point in time again.
…[Read more]IBM plans a residency to write a Redbook about the IBM DB2 for i5/OS as a Database Engine for MySQL:
Seize this opportunity to be among the first, elite IBM System i
professionals worldwide to gain hands-on and practical experience
with the MySQL on i5/OS. Working alongside and exchanging
knowledge with some of the top database experts in the System i,
you will develop a competitive edge that will serve you well in
successful service delivery to System i clients. MySQL is used
extensively with opensource PHP applications. As our customers
deploy PHP web applications, many of them are looking to run
MySQL as well.
The …
[Read more]Yesterday, Drupal 6.0 was officially released - check out this screencast to get a 29-minute tour on the new features in this release.
We'd like to congratulate the Drupal Developer Team and Community for reaching this milestone and are happy that the MySQL Server continues to serve well as the database backend for this awesome content management platform!
I had the pleasure of evaluating and reviewing a previous release of Drupal for the Open Source Content Management System Award from Packt Publishing and it has been one of my favourites.
Keep up the good work!
Like in the years before, I (and some other colleagues from
MySQL) will be attending FOSDEM 2008 in Brussels, Belgium on February 23rd
and 24th.
The schedule is packed as usual and lists several MySQL-related topics and sessions:
We have just published an interview with our CEO Mårten Mickos on our Developer Zone, where he answers a number of questions from the Community Team about Sun's plans to acquire MySQL AB and what this means for the MySQL User Community and the direction of the product (thanks to Colin for compiling and editing the text). I hope that the comments help to calm the concerns of some people about the future of MySQL with regards to Open Source, support of platforms or language bindings:
CT: Is MySQL fully committed to free and open
source software, and the GPL?
Mårten: Yes.
CT: What does the Sun acquisition mean for Linux
support? What about Windows, Mac OS/X and other platforms?
Mårten: One of the reasons …
Just a short reminder: the Hamburg MySQL Meetup Group will meet next week, on Monday the 4th of February! As usual, there will be a MySQL-related talk - this time I will use this opportunity to practice my talk about "Performing MySQL Backups using LVM Snapshots" that I will present at the upcoming MySQL Conference & Expo 2008 in Santa Clara, CA. In addition to that I assume that there will be some questions about the acquisition of MySQL AB by Sun - I will try to answer these as good as I can. Looking forward to meet you next week. Please make sure to RSVP either via Meetup.com or …
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