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Media Blob Streaming getting a Google boost
The 2008 Google Summer of Code MySQL Projects are now available. MySQL has 14 listed projects, one of the ~190 different Open Source products listed. Unfortunately there is no summary to see the total number of projects being sponsored across all products.
Read moreA few words from Jonathan Schwartz
Following Marten Mickos , the second opening keynote at the 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo was by Jonathan Schwartz CEO and President of Sun Microsystems. Blog His opening joke was about dinner with Marten, to which Marten said “You not going to get a keynote, unless you buy the company.
Read moreThe pursuit of a synchronous world
Well at least your MySQL database world. As Paul eluded to , PrimeBase Technologies has a project to provide synchronous replication for MySQL in a High Availability environment. It is more then an idea, there is a plan.
Read moreStorage Engines at the MySQL Conference
I’ll be following closely the progression of Storage Engines available in the MySQL Database server, well soon to be available when 5.1 gets to GA (hopefully by end of Q2 which is what we have been told).
Read moreCome and get a t-shirt at UC2008
Here I am at my desk sporting the PrimeBase supporters t-shirt that will be available at the exhibitors booth at the 2008 MySQL Conference . The front is rather uneventful with the official logo, but the back will be worth the experience.
Read moreA day with Paul McCullagh – Architect of PBXT and BlobStreaming
Continuing on from my lightning visits with Jan Kneschke and Michael Zinner , today I got to spend a day with Paul McCullagh at his home in Hamburg Germany .
Read moreJust what are MySQL 9.x features?
Top marks to Jay Pipes for getting the Forge 2.0 finally out after quite some time, as well as in the midst of the MySQL Conference he is organizing. I am worried however about some of the content, as shown in the screenshot below, the opening page lists Worklog tasks/features for versions 6.
Read moreCompanies speaking at UC2008
The Conference Speakers of the 2008 MySQL Conference provides some common and interesting names of companies not common in MySQL circles such as eBay, Microsoft Corporation, HP, Symantec. I see speakers outside of MySQL from countries including USA, Canada, Brazil, Germany, Japan and Australia.
Read moreUpcoming 2008 MySQL Conference
It’s just three weeks now before the 2008 MySQL Conference . Good to see my mug shot on the front page (see screen shot below). I will still be presenting my session Top 20 DB Design Tips Every Architect Needs to Know , however as a departing MySQL Employee I’ve had to give up the chance to present the “MySQL for Oracle DBA’s Bootcamp” tutorial, content that I developed for MySQL specifically and have already presented three one day seminars in New York, San Francisco and Washington DC.
Read moreMy passion for Open Source
I am a very strong proponent of Open Source (excluding my Macbook). Joining MySQL Inc was a wonderful achievement, being part of the team behind the most popular open source database.
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