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Alfresco's CEO, John Powell, wants and expects Alfresco to IPO. He thinks it will show the world that open source offers long-term staying power. John Roberts at SugarCRM is disappointed that MySQL didn't go public to provide evidence that open source is a viable business phenomenon.
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For years, MySQL never supported query cache with prepared statements. When I initially implemented MySQL prepared statements and its associated C API in MySQL 4.1 version; prepared statements were just saving the parsing cost of the query and nothing much. But now, the things are totally different.
Lot of developers stayed away from prepared statements due to this limitation (atleast for select statements). But now the latest MySQL 5.1 server does support the caching of prepared statements with …
[Read more]Maybe there's still some fight in the PostgreSQL competition, after all. [Update: Or maybe it has more to do with internal changes at MySQL - see below.] According to data compiled by MarkMail, PostgreSQL messaging traffic dwarfs that of MySQL's, suggesting that the Postgres community is more active than MySQL's:
Comparing PostgreSQL and MySQL is kind of interesting. With all the talk about the LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP-Perl-Python) architecture you'd think MySQL had a lock on the open source database market, but based on simple message traffic analytics, PostgreSQL has a much higher level of community involvement. Looking at January 2000 onward, the MySQL lists have amassed 340,000 messages with about 3,000 new messages each month. In the same time period, the PostgreSQL lists have hit 583,000 messages with 7,000 new each …
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The Sun/MySQL deal has closed! Check out PR announcement, Jonathan's welcome and Kaj's note; more entries include mysql@TA, mysql@BSC and at Planet MySQL. Barton … |
As already reported the deal is done (see Sun Press Release , Kaj – Ambassador to Sun comments ). I’ve had a look at the Official Sun-MySQL website. Here is a review of the interesting words and images on the new site.
I just need to get some basics off of my chest here, it’s by no means a full list but it’s the most basic list I can think of to start with, and it’s basic because I am surprised by some of the slop I’ve seen in production environments.
1. Highly available server clusters - this is different than load balancing cluster, if confused see here.
2. Disaster recovery
-> this means daily,weekly,monthly backups as well as off site backups, and tertiary backups as well as a plan to get those backups imported and running in production as fast as possible. Backups should have consistency checking when they are created.
3. Security
-> perimeter on the network, VLAN’d databases from the web/app servers, firewall, ACLs, etc
-> system level: strong passwords on OS and database accounts (no blank …
[Read more]I hope I’ll have the opportunity to meet you in person soon.
A face to face meeting may indeed be possible, if our World Tour celebrating the acquisition of MySQL by Sun has a stop close to you, and if I happen to be lucky to be attending that particular meetup just announced:
To toast the success of the acquisition and engage with customers, employees, community developers and partners, Sun and MySQL executives will kick-off a global tour in March, hitting major cities worldwide leading up to the popular MySQL Conference & Expo in April. Every Sun-MySQL community can participate online, …
[Read more]Sun formally completed its acquisition of MySQL on Tuesday. I was fortunate to spend 15 minutes on the phone with Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun, after the press conference.
I asked him a range of questions about criticism of Sun over Linux, as well as whether the MySQL integration would be as prickly as Red Hat's acquisition of JBoss was at times.
As usual, Schwartz didn't disappoint.
The Linux Foundation's Amanda McPherson recently called you out over Sun's continued push for Solaris despite Linux's rise. Why aren't you giving up?
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We've now officially closed MySQL's acquisition by Sun this morning and I thought I'd make a few observations about the process. I've been through several acquisitions over the years, both on the acquiring and the acquired side, and so far, this one has gone the smoothest. While Sun is obviously a much larger company than MySQL, the approach that the Sun execs and managers have taken has been professional and respectful every step of the way. Not once have I heard Sun employees say "This is the way we do things here." Instead, there has been a strong desire to... READ MORE
Today, Sun announced we've closed the acquisition of MySQL - MySQL is now officially a part of Sun! From a dinner meeting back in late November, through some introspection from MySQL's CEO, to a closing today in late February - everyone involved showed a great sense of pace, urgency and excitement. And now, it's off to the races!
Since the announcement, I've seen and heard near universal support for the relationship - most everyone wants to know where we're headed, so here's a quick overview of our initial plans.
Starting today, we're rolling out global programs to raise awareness and adoption of MySQL among more established enterprises - you'll see ads like this (to the right) targeting institutions and independent software/service vendors (ISV's) looking to …
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