The new licensing that was announced by Oracle earlier this month caused some FUD in the community that was addressed last week in an updated graphic comparing support and binary options and blog post from Oracle.  However, one of our customers sent me this earlier this week –

We are now re-evaluating whether we want to renew our MySQL Enterprise License.  As hard as I tried, I am still confused at what we get from the license we paid other than professional support.

In other words, I don’t know whether we are paying for the binary (for features not found in the Community version) or for the Service? I thought they are two different things. But it is just not clear on their Website.

Do you have some insight …

Next Thursday Oracle University will be hosting a lunchtime webinar, between 13.00 and 14.00 CET, to help you better understand the common MySQL mistakes impacting performance that you should avoid.

Oracle's senior MySQL instructor and consultant Kai Voigt will review the MySQL "no no's" and advise on what simple solutions should be used instead. Kai will also provide an introduction to indexing, rewriting of queries, monitoring the use of temporary tables, and other things you should know about.

You can register here for" this free webinar taking place on Thursday November 25th at 13.00 CET.

Dear Kettle fans,

PDI-200 has been out there for a while now.  Jens created the feature request a little over 3 years ago.  I guess the main thing blocking this issue was not as much a technical problem but more of a licensing and dependency one (Oracle JDBC dependency and distribution license).

However, now that we have the User Defined Java Class step we can work around those pesky problems. That is because the Java code in there only gets compiled and executed at runtime so it’s perfectly fine to create any sort of dependency in there you like.

The following transformation reads a set of rows from a stored procedure as described on this web page.

In short, our UDJC step executes the following code:

begin ? := sp_get_stocks(?); …

It's finally official — please join me in welcoming my new/old colleague Dave Stokes, who just joined the MySQL Community Relations Team at Oracle as the new MySQL community manager for North America. Some of you may remember him from a previous stint at MySQL, where he was in charge of the MySQL certification program. Back then, he was already running the North Texas MySQL Users Group and a regular blogger on Planet MySQL. I am sure we will be seeing much more of these kind of activities from now on. So welcome aboard, Dave! I look forward to working with you.

Welcome to , the weekly news blog about blogs in the datasphere… As we kick off , our own shares a few of her weekly favorites:

Oracle:

Arup Nanda posted an excellent script on how to summarize backup information from the rman catalog. He also posted a tool for automatically purging time-based partitions.

Pythian’s resident Exadata expert, Marc Fielding posted links to the …

Topics for this podcast:

*Our latest CAOS Special Report – Control and Community
*Red Hat releases RHEL 6
*Symbian and Oracle highlight community challenges
*The latest on government adoption of OSS from GOSCON
*Open core issue continues, now with Linux and evil twins

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Talend raises $34m, acquires Sopera. Red Hat releases RHEL 6. And more.

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# Talend raised $34m funding and acquired Sopera.

# Twilio raised $12m in series B funding.

# Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

# Savio Rodrigues noted a change in emphasis from Red Hat to focus on value, rather than cost.

# Joyent officially …

Next Thursday we'll be running a Webinar entitled:

"MySQL Enterprise Edition & Oracle Database 11g: World Class Web Scalability & Infrastructure"

During his presentation, Luca Olivari will cover the following points:

• MySQL overview to help you better understand what makes MySQL the database of choice of leading Web properties including Facebook, Google, Wikipedia and thousands of others.
• The different infrastructures you can implement to deliver highly scalable and highly available Web applications powered by the world's most popular open source database.
• How to integrate MySQL with Oracle 11g for the backend infrastructure of your Web applications.

We'll run the webinar on Thursday Nov 18th at 9.00 am Pacific Time/18.00 CET. You can register at: …

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Last week Adam went to QCon San Francisco to talk about "The Road Ahead for Java". Adam covered the Java SE Strategy, presented by Oracle at JavaOne via a PR, keynotes and sessions like S319476 by Paul and Henrik. The relevant section from the PR is:

The Oracle JDK and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) will continue to be available as free downloads, with no changes to the existing licensing models.

Premium offerings such as JRockit Mission Control, JRockit Real Time, Java for …

The Apache Software Foundation’s latest statement on the Java Community Process highlights continued dissatisfaction and dissent from Oracle’s stewardship and involvement in open source software.

This comes after some ups and downs for Oracle and its oversight of Java and other open source software that was previously under the auspices of Sun Microsystems. Oracle started off on a rough path when it sued Google over its implementation of Java in Android without preemptively or clearly stating that it was not attacking open source. At about the same time, it let OpenSolaris die a slow, somewhat confusing death. …