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When I joined MySQL in 2006, after several profitable years as a consultant, I had a dream. I wanted to improve the product that had contributed to my professional success. The first thing that I learned when I started the uphill task is that it was far more difficult than expected. MySQL called itself open source, but the development practices were for all practical purposes closed source. At the same time, I found that MySQL, below the surface, is an organization with complex and well oiled engineering practices. Indeed, opening up the cathedral, as Lenz put it, was a hard nut to crack. We had a closed source revision control system, and our developers loved it so much, that any proposal to change it was met with strong opposition. We discussed technical matters behind the firewall. Our … |
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When I joined MySQL in 2006, after several profitable years as a consultant, I had a dream. I wanted to improve the product that had contributed to my professional success. The first thing that I learned when I started the uphill task is that it was far more difficult than expected. MySQL called itself open source, but the development practices were for all practical purposes closed source. At the same time, I found that MySQL, below the surface, is an organization with complex and well oiled engineering practices. Indeed, opening up the cathedral, as Lenz put it, was a hard nut to crack. We had a closed source revision control system, and our developers loved it so much, that any proposal to change it was met with strong opposition. We discussed technical matters behind the firewall. Our … |
Just slightly over a year ago I posted Welcome Aboard, MySQL! from Orlando. Since then we have worked together in many things including GF Bundles, IdMgr, Telco, OSS Price/Performance, Pricing, even Legal. Possibly the biggest impact of the acquisision has been on the …
[Read more]I am getting ready to FOSDEM, the biggest European gathering of free and open source software enthusiasts. The event is held in Brussels, Belgium, on February 7-8, 2009.
MySQL has a developers room on Sunday, with a schedule rich of well known names and juicy topics.
I will present a talk about partitions in MySQL 5.1.
Lenz will have a talk in the main conference, on MySQL high availability.
There is a wiki page on MySQL Forge where we will provide last minute information.
…[Read more]I am getting ready to FOSDEM, the biggest European gathering of free and open source software enthusiasts. The event is held in Brussels, Belgium, on February 7-8, 2009.
MySQL has a developers room on Sunday, with a schedule rich of well known names and juicy topics.
I will present a talk about partitions in MySQL 5.1.
Lenz will have a talk in the main conference, on MySQL high availability.
There is a wiki page on MySQL Forge where we will provide last minute information.
…[Read more]I am getting ready to FOSDEM, the biggest European gathering of free and open source software enthusiasts. The event is held in Brussels, Belgium, on February 7-8, 2009.
MySQL has a developers room on Sunday, with a schedule rich of well known names and juicy topics.
I will present a talk about partitions in MySQL 5.1.
Lenz will have a talk in the main conference, on MySQL high availability.
There is a wiki page on MySQL Forge where we will provide last minute information.
…[Read more]By Giuseppe Maxia
The Data Charmer, a.k.a. The Wizard, is a free lance database consultant, with a long career in several IT fields. He is well known for his Perl and SQL expertise,although he is proficient in several other languages, such as C++, shell scripts, and Italian.
He has a split personality, one of which lives in virtual space and time, floating around UTC+1. The other (or the others, as there is a dispute about how many they are) is less documented and some people believe it to be fictional. He teaches Creative Biography at the University of Euphoria, CA (also known as Euphoric State).
G.M. Hello, D.C. Thanks for agreeing to be interviewed. I'll start with a question that most people ask. Who are you?
D.C. This is not really a question I'm willing to answer. Besides, the answer would be misleading. In the Internet age, I can be several people at …
[Read more]The rise of the "Open Source Software Stack" reached another milestone today.
Sun released a SPECjAppServer2004 performance result using
top-to-bottom Open Source Software stack components:
OpenSolaris/MySQL/Glassfish. At 1197.10 JOPS, the
performance is highly respectable - not setting any land speed
records, but it is in the ball park with other results using the
same class of hardware. The difference (of course) is
in the price/performance.
The other contenders were two [1][ …
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It is widely acknowledged that Barack Obama put together the best
minds and team together to run his campaign. One of the proof
points is that his website www.barackobama.com was driven by
MySQL!
From Jonathan's blog:
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/
" On behalf of Sun Microsystems, I would like to offer my
sincerest congratulations to President elect Barack Obama. What
an extraordinary accomplishment.
I would also like to extend my congratulations to his web team
for having chosen MySQL as the platform behind their election web
site, BarackObama.com. "
It is widely acknowledged that Barack Obama put together the best
minds and team together to run his campaign. One of the proof
points is that his website www.barackobama.com was driven by
MySQL!
From Jonathan's blog:
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/
" On behalf of Sun Microsystems, I would like to offer my
sincerest congratulations to President elect Barack Obama. What
an extraordinary accomplishment.
I would also like to extend my congratulations to his web team
for having chosen MySQL as the platform behind their election web
site, BarackObama.com. "