The MySQL team at Oracle would like to thank everyone who joined us at the MySQL Community Reception last week at the Santa Clara Tech Mart. We couldn't have hoped for better participation - the room was packed; in fact people were overflowing into the outside patio!!!!

"Great conversations, positive spirit and delicious food" is how one person described the event! And let's not forget the vodka...

Personally, I was happy to see many members of the MySQL community come together (a special shoutout to ex-MySQLers Marten Mickos and Zach Urlocker!), and have a chance to meet Tomas Ulin (VP MySQL Engineering) and some key members of his team. Afterall, there's a lot to talk about with all the new features we recently announced in the MySQL 5.6 Development …

The MySQL team at Oracle would like to thank everyone who joined us at the MySQL Community Reception last week at the Santa Clara Tech Mart. We couldn't have hoped for better participation - the room was packed; in fact people were overflowing into the outside patio!!!!

"Great conversations, positive spirit and delicious food" is how one person described the event! And let's not forget the vodka...

Personally, I was happy to see many members of the MySQL community come together (a special shoutout to ex-MySQLers Marten Mickos and Zach Urlocker!), and have a chance to meet Tomas Ulin (VP MySQL Engineering) and some key members of his team. Afterall, there's a lot to talk about with all the new features we recently announced in the MySQL 5.6 Development …

Please join us at 10am US PT on Dec. 15th as we provide an important technology update on MySQL. In this live webcast, Tomas Ulin, VP MySQL development and Rob Young, Senior Product Manager, will update you on the latest developments with MySQL.

Mark your calendar!

Register now.

Please join us at 10am US PT on Dec. 15th as we provide an important technology update on MySQL. In this live webcast, Tomas Ulin, VP MySQL development and Rob Young, Senior Product Manager, will update you on the latest developments with MySQL.

Mark your calendar!

Register now.

The confusion about whether MySQL Community Edition still included InnoDB seems now to have dissipated. Thank you to Sheeri Cabral, Darren Cassar and all of you who helped correct the misperception created by catchy headlines. In part, the confusion was caused by people assuming that the MySQL Classic Edition (an option for embedding that has been around for a long time) is the same as MySQL Community Edition...not so. We have made appropriate changes to our web page to …

LogLogic, a company that offers a comprehesive suite of Log Management and Security Event Management solutions, has embedded MySQL and Oracle Linux to improve performance and reliability of their products.

Here is an excerpt from the press release:

As customers' requirements grew, LogLogic's products needed to scale substantially to accommodate demand.

As a result, LogLogic embedded MySQL as the data processing engine for its products. The affordable, scalable, and robust solution enabled LogLogic to comfortably handle its expanding processing requirements, which include the receipt and indexing of more than a quarter of a million log entries per second and tens of billions of records per day.   The company also deployed Oracle …

Independent Oracle User Group's (IOUG) President, Andy Flower's article in the latest issue of Oracle Magazine extends a warm welcome to the MySQL community!

Andy outlines a number of ways in which they are collaborating with the MySQL users and community. Here is an excerpt...

IOUG is looking forward to providing a platform for MySQL users to gather virtually and physically year-round. To start, we are helping support local MySQL events, such as OpenSQL Camp in October 2010 in Boston, Massachusetts.

But we are most excited to present 120 MySQL educational sessions, given by MySQL users and key industry partners, which will be held at our annual COLLABORATE conference in Orlando, Florida, April 10-14, 2011. Not only will there be a special focus on MySQL, but attendees …

The MySQL team at Oracle has been very busy! Tomorrow, Sept. 19th, we welcome the MySQL users and community to Oracle OpenWorld - this will be a first. We all are very excited and have been working hard to make this worth your while.

Details on MySQL Sunday

Day and Date: Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010

Time: 12:30 pm onwards (registration is prior to 12:30 and will be at Moscone location)

Location: Marriott Marquis, San Francisco

Check out the MySQL Sunday agenda.

Don't miss the opening keynote by Edward Screven, closing keynote by Marten Mickos and sessions delivered by your favorite community presenters including Mark Callaghan, Sheeri Cabral, Ronald Bradford and many more.

 Hope to see you tomorrow! …

On September 19, 2010, Oracle is hosting MySQL Sunday, a half-day technical conference jam-packed with the latest on MySQL, the world's most popular open source database. The sessions will offer you insights into the latest MySQL technical innovations and community developments. Check out the agenda.

Keynotes

We are very excited that Marten Mickos, CEO, Eucalyptus Systems, will be joining us to deliver the closing keynote at MySQL Sunday, in addition to Edward Screven, Oracle's Chief Corporate Architect and Head of the MySQL business.

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It is interesting to read RedmondDeveloper News’s take on Oracle’s attitude to open source this morning, especially this paragraph quoting Monica Kumar, Oracle’s senior director for Linux and open source product marketing:

“”We haven’t seen our customers asking for open source databases,” she told me. “Not many customers are interested in looking into the code and mucking around with it, and making changes to it. All they care about is ‘give me the best support, give me the lowest price of entry’.” For that Kumar pointed to Oracle Express.”

It is difficult to disagree with the second part of Monica’s statement. Cost savings are routinely cited as the biggest driver for open source database adoption, while the lack of robust support is the biggest barrier to open source adoption.

Certainly these were the findings of our …