There were a lot of great stories and sessions at the Sun CEC 2008 conference. The MySQL sessions were some of the most popular sessions of the conference. My focus was on delivering sessions that would teach Sun engineers and partners why MySQL is exploding in the market place. Additional sessions developed specific MySQL DBA skills for Sun engineers. More details can be found at:http://

During the Sun CEC 2008 MySQL sessions training track it was great to get Marten Mickos to speak to the Sun audience. As I was lining up guest speakers for my MySQL sessions I really wanted to get Marten there to address questions Sun employees have on the MySQL acquisition and to discuss future directions of MySQL with Sun. Marten as one of the key leaders in open source as always did a great

This morning started with a nice breakfast and the opening general session. Key speakers include:Daniel J. Berg - CTO Global Sales and Services and VP of EM Systems EngineeringPeter Ryan - Execute VP Global Sales and ServicesJonathan Schwartz - CEO and PresidentHal Stern - Senior VP Systems Engineering Highlights from the General SessionOpen source is disruptive technology. Open source is

I'm definitely looking forward to presenting the MySQL sessions here at the Sun 2008 Customer Engineering Conference (CEC). The conference is at the Paris Hotel here in Las Vegas. The conference starts for me today (Sunday, November 9) with a walk through from 5:00-6:30pm. All the training track managers need to go through the walkthrough. The welcome reception is then at the Paris, Pavilion/

Ty Valdez and George Trujillo will be delivering multiple training sessions on the MySQL database server at the Sun Customer Engineering Conference (CEC) in Las Vegas during the week of November 9th - 14th, 2008. Details of the presentations can be found at http://blogs.sun.com/georgetrujillo. Key areas of presentation include:Positioning MySQL and MySQL database installationUnderstanding the