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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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There will be two MySQL representatives on the fifth jubilee edition of OpenFest in Sofia. Yes, there will be MySQL representatives for fifth time in a row

The lecture, which will be most interesting for me is the one about MySQL proxy. Andrey gave us a general vision on the subject a few months ago during the WebTech, and now I hope that Giuseppe Maxia will tell us some more details about it and that he will be ready to answer many questions; we are planning to give him some “hard time” since he is coming here.

The other lecturer will be Domas Mituzas. He is also a MySQL representative, but he will tell more about the creation of Wikipedia, because …

Ok, I'm a little travelled out with recent trips to around the US visiting customers, the Gartner conference and a trip to Europe for our developer meeting in Germany. So I'm glad that the upcoming Zend PHP conference (Oct 8-11) is in the bay area. I've been to this conference the last few years and it's a good one. Not as large as the MySQL conference, but if you're into PHP, it's got all the technical meat you could want, and then some. I expect the Zend execs (Harold Goldberg, Andi Guttmans and Mark DeVisser) will kick things off with... READ MORE

If you're a private open source company, how do you compete against the likes of Google or VMWare for talent? At MySQL, we've found that one of the most attractive elements of the company is the fact that we are globally distributed. We have over 300 employees in nearly 30 countries. (That's in total, not 300 in each!) And over 70% of employees work from home. Among developers, the rate is over 90%. So that means that they don't have to commute, they don't have to hang out in boring HR meetings, they can just focus on what they like,... READ MORE

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