Jim Starkey, Senior Software Architect at MySQL, is featured in an online interview over at Dr Dobb's Journal. It's a short interview, but every question reveals insight into the Jim's thoughts on the relational model, SQL, security, standards and more. For those who don't know Jim, he is one of the pionneers of the database industry and has implemented several relational databases in his career. Jim has always been an innovator, inventing the widely accepted notion of Blobs (binary large objects) and multi-generational versioning, a key innovation of InterBase. Jim and Ann Harrison joined MySQL from Netfrastructure, the company they... READ MORE

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People sometimes ask me if I still do a lot of development.

Well, Ohloh keeps track of that these days and it seems that between September and November 2007 I was the 7th most active contributor:

Ohloh tracks 90655 developers in 8985 projects including Firefox, Apache HTTP server, Subversion, MySQL, PHP, Open Office, the Linux kernel, Ubuntu and many more.  As such, I’m kinda proud of that 7th spot.

If version 3 of Pentaho Data Integration has any bugs left when it launches, it won’t be because I was having a vacation

Until next time,

Matt

We're heading into the home stretch for the Call for Papers for the MySQL Conference & Expo 2008. The official deadline is end of day today, October 30 and so far, we have plenty of great submissions. However, there's still an opportunity to get in your presentation. In particular, we're looking for more technical presentations on topics like Scale-out, use of Ruby on Rails, use of .Net, High Availability and case studies that show how you're using MySQL in production applications. It's possible that the call for papers may be extended by a couple of days, but I recommend submitting... READ MORE

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The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) recently surveyed their members about open source and has now published their findings. A few highlights: -More than one third of the respondents reported that they have deployed an open source database in production, which is a higher rate than for open source tools, frameworks or applications. -Nearly three-quarters of that group have MySQL installed -The availability of "express editions" from Oracle, Microsoft and others has not slowed down adoption of open source databases -Over 50% plan on increasing their use of open source software in the next year -63% of those using open... READ MORE

The Pune Linux Users Group had organized a Mash (http://plug.org.in/mashup/) on October 13th and 14th ‘07.

Yet again, Zmanda asserted its support to the open source community by being an active participant at the Mash. Zmanda was conspicuous, by participating in all the events at the Mash

We had put forth two project ideas for the Mash. One was to find the most popular video/news viewed in India at any given time. And the other was to develop a Mobile-Mobile Chat Application.

The attendees were interested in both the project ideas.

Day 1 ? October 13th

At the Coding Session, Nikhil Bandiwadekar and Sachin Kale made significant progress in finding the most popular finance news viewed at any time. They used Yahoo Pipes for this purpose.

One of the attendees suggested the use of OpenMoko ( …

A couple of weeks ago Hyperic announced their cooperation with JasperSoft to add advanced reporting to their open source systems management tool. Hyperic is interesting because it enables IT managers to get first-class monitoring of LAMP and other infrastructure software, whether it's open source or closed. For example, you can monitor MySQL running on Windows or BEA WebLogic running on Linux or any other combinations. Now working with JasperSoft you can get Enterprise class reporting built-in which is a great way to show your management what the heck systems management is and why it matters! It's sometimes hard to get... READ MORE

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