Connectors now available to the MySQL® community as part of the MariaDB open source project

Helsinki – November 29, 2012 – Monty Program, the home of MariaDB, owned by MySQL®-database-creator Monty Widenius and its employees, and SkySQL, the trusted provider of open source database solutions, today announced the immediate availability of their connectors, ‘MariaDB Client Library for C and MariaDB Client Library for Java Applications’, to the wider MySQL® database community in the permissive LGPL licence.

With this announcement, the connectors become part of the wider MariaDB open source project, to which users will be able to contribute via relevant online resources.

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First 10 to register this week will benefit from a 40% discount

The Percona Live MySQL Conference: London 2012 is just around the corner and we’ll be present both with talks as well as in the exhibition hall alongside other sponsors of the conference.

Talks & Hot Topics

Our very own Ivan Zoratti has the following two talks on Tuesday December 4th:

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Ashisuto greatly expands support services for Enterprise users of MySQL & MariaDB open source database software

So, this is exciting news and something that my colleague Daniel Saito had been working on for years: enterprise-ready, 24/365 Japanese support for the MySQL and MariaDB databases!

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Une soirée de conférence et networking intitulée: "MySQL, le Cloud et MariaDB" Invitation - Meetup SkySQL

Mercredi 12 décembre 2012 de 19h à 22h30

SkySQL Ab vous invite à une soirée de conférence et networking intitulée :

« MySQL, le Cloud et MariaDB »

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SkySQL’s live in the UK – come and check us out at Oxford University - devfest

There will be a nice contrast in the air as the ancient institution of Oxford University plays home to the latest trends in open source software at the All Your Base conference, taking place at the Said Business School on the 23rd November. And we are prepared to show off our new Cloud and Enterprise products, allowing developers to get hands-on with the solutions.

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Codership, SkySQL und weitere Top-Experten rund um das Thema ‘MySQL Datenbanken” in Nürnberg versammelt

Unser Kollege Ralf Gebhardt ist dieses Jahr mit einem Vortrag zum Thema ‘Hochverfügbarkeitslösungen für die MySQL Datenbank’ auf der DOAG Konferenz zu hören und zu sehen. Weitere Interessante Themen sind z.B. ein Vortrag von Coderships Seppo Jaakola zu ‘Galera Cluster - synchronous multi-master replication for MySQL’.

Wir freuen uns auf Ihren Besuch beim MySQL-Stream der DOAG 2012 Konferenz!

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SkySQL’s Newest Training Course, “MySQL Database for the Cloud”, Helps DBAs and Developers Find Success in the Cloud  

Increasingly, more organisations are moving their database applications to cloud to take advantage of its superior agility and faster deployment over legacy systems.

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Congratulations to the co-founder of MySQL AB & SkySQL Board Member We’re proud to have David on our team

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It's been a little more than two weeks since we launched our SkySQL Cloud Data Suite and SkySQL Enterprise Suite, and we're pleased at the response we've seen so far for these releases.

You've heard what we've had to say about it, but here are also some highlights of what the media is saying about SkySQL's recent move to introduce products to the marketplace...

SkySQL: build the service, then the customers and THEN the products - Computer Weekly - Insight into the ideal business model for start-ups

SkySQL offers tools for Amazon and Enterprise MySQL deployments -  …

Sitting at the Hilton in San Francisco, listening to the MySQL Connect opening Keynotes, sparks interesting thoughts. Thoughts about the future of MySQL, the Oracle stewardship, the MariaDB alternative and the advantage of the solutions provided by the MySQL Ecosystem.
But there is something missing. I know something is not part of this picture, but I can't figure out what it is.
At the end of keynotes and pane,l I turn to the exhibitors area, an approx 800 sq ft., 50% occupied by Oracle. At the bottom left corner stands my answer. 
The small yellow cubic hive of AWS was at the top of the rollup that reminds of MySQL and RDS, admittedly the most used version of MySQL in the cloud so far. And here is the missing part. 

New great features in 5.6 Release Candidate and in MySQL Cluster 7.3
The new features …