Today's announcement that Oracle has agreed to buy Sun definitely starts the MySQL conference which begins this morning with a bang. I expect Oracle InnoDB presentations to be standing room only! Oracle announcement: http://www.oracle.com/sun/index.htmlSun announcement: http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp The MySQL conference just got very interesting for the attendees!

The MySQL Users Conference is going to be an excellent conference with a lot of change going on in the MySQL world. Some of the key areas to be looking at include:MySQL strategic directions.Increasing vertical scalability of MySQL with upcoming MySQL software releases, new and enhanced storage engines and patches.Enhanced diagnostics with DTrace.New BI software products and tools.Performance