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A 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 moreA clarification of evil
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.
Read moreThe Sun Download Manager is evil
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”.
Read moreThings that piss me off
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.
Read moreMySQL graphics and words in use
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 ).
Read moreWhere is the Sun MySQL Reference Manual?
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 .
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