https://ronaldbradford.com/categories/sun/ Recent content in Sun on Enterprise Data Architect | Principal Data Strategist | MySQL Subject Matter Expert | Author | Speaker Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:51:02 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-do-mysql-staff-think-of-the-acquisition-2009-12-21/ Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:51:02 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-do-mysql-staff-think-of-the-acquisition-2009-12-21/ It finally dawned on me while reflecting on the year past this Sunday that the missing voice since the announcement of the Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems (and therefore MySQL) has been the MySQL employees. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/whats-new-in-mysql-541-2009-07-16/ Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:56:19 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/whats-new-in-mysql-541-2009-07-16/ Absolutely nothing? 5.4.0 was released with a change in the MySQL Binary distributions , delivering only 1 64bit Linux platform and two Sun Solaris platforms. This was officially announced on April 21 2009 however the 5. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-change-in-the-mysql-binary-distributions-2009-04-22/ Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:52:15 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-change-in-the-mysql-binary-distributions-2009-04-22/ Yesterday was the surprise announcement of MySQL 5.4 at the 2009 MySQL Conference and Expo. It was unfortunate that the supporting information was not that forthcoming on the MySQL website. I tried for several hours to try and download, but no mirrors were initially available. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/where-is-the-mysql-in-suns-announcement-2009-04-20/ Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:49:22 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/where-is-the-mysql-in-suns-announcement-2009-04-20/ I find it surprising that in the official Sun Announcement there is no mention of MySQL for two reasons. Firstly, this was Sun largest single purchase of $1 billion only 12 months ago. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/classic-quotes-community-one-east-2009-03-22/ Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:38:02 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/classic-quotes-community-one-east-2009-03-22/ The CommunityOne East 2009 conference has finished up. There were a few classic statements made by the speakers during the day. They included. “We have a community reception, that’s a long way to say free beer. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/your-code-your-community-your-cloud-project-kenai-2009-03-18/ Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:05:21 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/your-code-your-community-your-cloud-project-kenai-2009-03-18/ Following the opening keynote announcement about Kenai I ventured into a talk on Project Kenai . With today’s economy, the drive is towards efficiency is certainly a key consideration, it was quoted that dedicated hosting servers only run at 30% efficiency. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/everybody-is-talking-about-clouds-2009-03-18/ Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:14:04 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/everybody-is-talking-about-clouds-2009-03-18/ From the opening keynote at CommunityOne East we begin with Everybody is talking About Clouds. It’s difficult to get a good definition, the opening cloud definition today was Software/Platform/Storage/Database/Infrastructure as a service. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/communityone-east-an-open-developer-conference-2009-03-18/ Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:53:21 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/communityone-east-an-open-developer-conference-2009-03-18/ With an opening video from thru-you.com – an individual taking random you-tube video and producing video mashup’s, the CommunityOne East conference in New York, NY beings. The opening introduction was by Chief Sustainability Officer Dave Douglas. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/hurting-the-little-guy-2009-03-16/ Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:08:02 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/hurting-the-little-guy-2009-03-16/ Today I come back from the dentist, if that wasn’t bad enough news, I get an email from Google AdWords titled Your Google AdWords Approval Status. In the email, all my AdWords campaigns are now disapproved, because of: https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/an-intestesting-approach-to-free-hosting-2008-08-27/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:17:31 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/an-intestesting-approach-to-free-hosting-2008-08-27/ I came across the OStatic Free hosting service that provide Solaris + Glassfish (Java Container) + MySQL. They offer “Now you can get free Web hosting on Cloud Computing environment free of charge for up to 12 months. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/virtualbox-compiling-part-2-2008-08-18/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:06:36 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/virtualbox-compiling-part-2-2008-08-18/ So I managed to find all dependencies after some trial and error for compiling VirtualBox 1.6.4 under Ubuntu 8.0.4, then finding the Linux build instructions to confirm. It was not successful however in building, throwing the following error: https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/virtual-box-a-world-of-hurt-2008-08-17/ Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:34:56 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/virtual-box-a-world-of-hurt-2008-08-17/ I successfully installed Virtual box via a few simply apt-get commands under Ubuntu 8.04 via these instructions . It started fine, after two small annoying, install this module, add this group messages. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/project-darkstar-2008-08-14/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:05:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/project-darkstar-2008-08-14/ It may sound like either a astronomical research project or a Star Wars spin- off, but Project Darkstar is an open source infrastructure from Sun Microsystems that states “simplify the development and operation of massively scalable online games, virtual worlds, and social networking applications. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/sun-stock-prices-2008-07-17/ Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:46:27 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/sun-stock-prices-2008-07-17/ Sun Microsystem’s (NASDAQ:JAVA ) hit a low this week of $8.71. There was a stronger rally and a close at $9.16 today. The financial times reports Sun Micro chief sees rays of hope , and Bloomberg Sun Rises After Fourth-Quarter Profit Tops Estimates . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-few-words-from-jonathan-schwartz-2008-04-16/ Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:58:11 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-few-words-from-jonathan-schwartz-2008-04-16/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-clarification-of-evil-2008-03-30/ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:07:44 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-clarification-of-evil-2008-03-30/ Earlier I wrote in The Sun Download Manager is evil a subsequent generalization, and I wanted to make a clarification. I stand my by title, but not that the entire company is evil. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-sun-download-manager-is-evil-2008-03-27/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:07:25 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-sun-download-manager-is-evil-2008-03-27/ Well, following my rather unimpressed first attempt to download Open Solaris I registered a second account and this time it worked, go figure, there must be a “annoy MySQL ex employees feature there”. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/things-that-piss-me-off-2008-03-26/ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:07:00 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/things-that-piss-me-off-2008-03-26/ So I decided to download Open Solaris tonight. Not only do you have to go through the pain of registering to download the free product, ok that’s understandable, you are forced to enter an Organization and a Phone Number, the first is impractical people, not everybody works or want’s to even tell you where they work, but phone number is completely unacceptable. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ny-php-sun-mysql-a-new-hope-2008-03-26/ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:54:48 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ny-php-sun-mysql-a-new-hope-2008-03-26/ Tonight’s New York PHP community meeting was a talk by Philip Antoniades the MySQL Systems Engineering Manager. With an interesting topic opener “A New Hope” I could not resist to hear Philip’s official MySQL presentation. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-graphics-and-words-in-use-2008-02-28/ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:50:10 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-graphics-and-words-in-use-2008-02-28/ Not sure during my vacation which part of the creative brain has taken over, but I’ve become rather obsessed with marketing graphics and associated words being used across the MySQL and Sun MySQL websites, (See previous examples here and here ). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/where-is-the-sun-mysql-reference-manual-2008-02-28/ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:22:13 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/where-is-the-sun-mysql-reference-manual-2008-02-28/ Yesterday I mentioned the new <a href=-“http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/?p=958">The official Sun-MySQL WebSite. It interested me with the navigation, graphics and content used to describe MySQL. Greg of One Free Voice in a comment raised a very valid question, he could not find the MySQL Reference Manual, see comments . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-camp-iii-2008-01-22/ Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:19:16 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-camp-iii-2008-01-22/ Diary: January 21st 2008 – Martin Luther King Day (Day doctor’s practices are closed BTW.) “I have a dream”, poetic . Actually I have thumping 5 day straight headache but that’s another story.