I recently had the opportunity to return and speak at the Brisbane MySQL Users Group . I spent some time talking about MySQL User Conference 2007 Summary and Life as a Consultant. My summary of included:
- Overview
- Keynotes
- Marten Mickos – MySQL
- Guy Kawasaki
- Michael Evans – OLPC
- Rasmus Lerdorf – PHP
- Paul Tuckfield – YouTube
- Community Awards
- Product Road Map
- Storage Engines
- Dorsal Source
- What’s Next
One question was posed to me. “What new did MySQL do this year?” being from the last User Conference. MySQL did seem to not make a great impact at the conference over the successes of the previous year. I had to think some time to come up with the following list.
- MySQL Network Monitoring and Advisory Service for Enterprise Level Customers Read More
- MySQL Enterprise and MySQL Community split Read More
- MySQL Enterprise Unlimited Read More
- Pluggable Storage Engine Architecture continuing to become more viable for engines like PBXT , Nitro and InfoBright
- Falcon Alpha Download
- Time You Person of the Year, with all websites like YouTube , Wikipedia , FaceBook and Flickr all powered by MySQL. Read More
And most recently:
- Open Source Database Vendor Partners with LINBIT to Jointly Promote & Support DRBD for MySQL Enterprise Read More
- IBM DB2 as a Certified Storage Engine for MySQL on System i Read More
It’s hard to say if these are big ticket items or not, but it is definitely disappointing that 5.1 GA is still MIA. We stay tuned.
I also managed a much better response then from my Conference Presentation opening Slide.
“How can you tell an Oracle DBA has touched your MySQL Installation?”
MYSQL_HOME=/home/oracle/products/mysql-version
mysqld_safe –user=oracle &
