The MySQL Telecom sales team is a global team, but it happens to be organized under the EMEA region of the MySQL sales department. Since the EMEA region is having a staff meeting in Dublin this week, it means also we in the telecom team are gathered here. A good opportunity to meet your globally dispersed collagues.
Zack Urlocker was the special guest star from headquarters. He presented a freudian-slip-slide saying that MySQL 5.1 will be released GA in July 2009. After lots of laughter he concessed that maybe engineering can pull it of faster, like maybe July 2008.
Another hot topic Zack talked about was to review how the integration with Sun is going...
...we concluded at least some of us are adapting just fine :-)