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
• Google
• 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.