CIO published an article highlighting 5 cheap (or free)
software that can be afforded during financial crisis. Their
recommendations are:
I was booked for keynoting the second MySQL Users Conference in Japan on 30-31 October 2008. Going to Japan is always something I’m looking forward to.
However, I won’t have that pleasure this time. I got requested to keynote a Sun partner event instead, on Tue 28.10.2008 at Kievits Kroon, just outside Pretoria in South Africa.
For Japan, I will be replaced by nobody other than David Axmark. I’m happy he gets the opportunity to do this keynote, transitioning from his current role to a consultant next month. I hope this also gives the press an opportunity to understand David’s motivations a bit better!
To save Solaris from a certain death ?
Reading Planet MySQL the last couple of hours I'm trying really
hard to convince myselve the Solaris offensive there is not
orchestrated.. but I can't.
It might ofcourse be the fresh MySQL users that Sun brought in on
their platform that started out blogging but hey .. I`m paranoia
right :)
Are they really trying to get at least a fraction of the MySQL community on Solaris. Do they really think they can ? Yes they lost a zillion of Solaris customers that were running a proprietary database to MySQL on Linux users ,, but why would they want to move back to a semi proprietary setup ?
According to Linuxjournal Alan Cox seems to think that ZFS is the only thing that is keeping Solaris alive. I don't think DTrace was a bigg mass tool that would convince the crowds to suddenly move to an other operating system.
So is Sun trying to Lock In a community ? …
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First of all, let me say that I think it's great that you're
using MySQL, regardless of the underlying operating system.
What I'm currently looking at is when might it make sense
for MySQL users to give Solaris or OpenSolaris a try. In
that process, something that would be helpful to know is why do
so many existing MySQL users deploy on Linux? Is it
familiarity, what's available in their environment, known to
work, licensing model, cost, etc? Do you have other
reasons? I'd like to know. Please share your
comments. Thanks.
Today at the Venture Capital Forum in Hilton Arc de Triomphe, Paris, I received the EVCA “Hall of Fame” Award on behalf of MySQL AB. What a timing, to meet with investment bankers and venture capitalists now!
In these times of a deep finance crisis, of no credit handed out by banks and of general doom and gloom, it felt great to be somewhat of an “everybody’s darling”. In the VC community, MySQL is seen as a great success — and in particular, we’re seen by European VCs as a European success story (despite over 50 % of our personnel and most of our Management Team being US-based, at the point of time when the VCs exited).
Side note: I don’t mind MySQL being seen as a European success story. We’re used to portraying ourselves as belonging to whatever geography is relevant for the moment. That …
[Read more]It’s like removing the brakes from your car. yes, it will go faster (slightly less weight) but, dude, you just removed the brakes.
If you use MySQL, you may want to give OpenSolaris a try. Why? It's open source and has great features, like ZFS and DTrace, which make life a lot easier for MySQL DBAs.
Want to use Dtrace or ZFS but are unfamiliar with building MySQL on Solaris? Dont panic, its never been easier. Here are the steps that worked for me.
pfexec pkg install ss-dev
export CC=/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin/cc export CXX=/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin/CC export CFLAGS="-xO3" #Your fav compiler flags go here export CXXFLAGS="-xO3" ./configure --with-plugins=innobase,myisam --with-mysqld-libs=-lmtmalloc gmake
Yes, it is that simple. Of course you could just download the binaries and use them too; they work just fine.
Want to use Dtrace or ZFS but are unfamiliar with building MySQL on Solaris? Dont panic, its never been easier. Here are the steps that worked for me.
pfexec pkg install ss-dev
export CC=/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin/cc export CXX=/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin/CC export CFLAGS="-xO3" #Your fav compiler flags go here export CXXFLAGS="-xO3" ./configure --with-plugins=innobase,myisam --with-mysqld-libs=-lmtmalloc gmake
Yes, it is that simple. Of course you could just download the binaries and use them too; they work just fine.
Want to use Dtrace or ZFS but are unfamiliar with building MySQL on Solaris? Dont panic, its never been easier. Here are the steps that worked for me.
pfexec pkg install ss-dev
export CC=/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin/cc export CXX=/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin/CC export CFLAGS="-xO3" #Your fav compiler flags go here export CXXFLAGS="-xO3" ./configure --with-plugins=innobase,myisam --with-mysqld-libs=-lmtmalloc gmake
Yes, it is that simple. Of course you could just download the binaries and use them too; they work just fine.