It’s an early start this morning at 8:20am at MySQL Conference 2007 with CEO Mårten Mickos keynote talk Welcome and State of MySQL AB.
Here are some of the key points that impressed on me.
“The Participatory & Disruptive spirit of the Dolphin.”.
Open Source disrupts inefficient models and produces new wealth.
Architecture of Participation.
- GPL and FOSS licenses
- del.ico.us
MySQL Architecture of Participation
You have the forge, the planet, community contributer program and many more.
Production of Amateurs
- You Tube
- Second Life
- Wikipedia
Some really great Quotes:
“Fail often to succeed soon.” IDEO company slogan
“Noah’s Ark was built by amateurs, but the Titanic by professionals.”
Innovation Happens Here
MySQL Monitoring & Advisory Service
In his presentation of MySQL Network Enterprise Dashboard, If you were quick you would have noticed the MySQL Version 6.0.0-alpha-pb518.log
Leading Applications
- Open Source ISVs
- Web
- Web 2.0
- On-Demand
- Hosting
- Telco & VOIP
- Security
- Enterptise 2.0
- Hub & Spoke
We want to be known as The Online Database.
Drawn to the Lamp
- Microsoft
- Oracle
- IBM
- Sun
- HP
- Dell
- Unisys
They all have an Open Source strategy, the develop open source products, they use and partner with MySQL.
He also mentioned MySQL Enterprise Connection Alliance – MECA.
Global Distributed Organization
- 70% work from home
- 100 major locations in nearly 30 different countries.
- There is a great focus on culture – global culture.
Disruptive Businesses
- A smarter way to produce the goods
- A smarter way to distribute them
- Serve the underserved
- Keep it simple
- Innovate with technology to give customers more convenience
- Make money
- Gartner: 66% of enterprises are deploying MySQL or planning to
- 750,000 newsletter subscribers
- MySQL installed in over 11 million installations
Going Forward
- Scalability
- Availability
- Manageability