The only unrealistic part about the scenario is that I fear that most purchasers within a government agency won't be asking these questions, yet.
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Unless you are doing it wrong.
And sadly I`m seeing more and more people doing it wrong.
To a lot of people Open Source means that they have a piece of
software that does almost what they want and which they can
modify to their best wishes and use internally.
So they fork locally,, they don't redistribute their code , but they aren't contributing their changes back upstream, chances are these changes wouldn't be accepted upstream anyhow as they are really customizing the code for their specific cases. At first sight this doesn't look so bad , at second sight ..
When weeks or months later the upstream project releases an
urgent security fix, the local fork has deviated soo much that it
can't upgrade anymore and stays with an insecure version.
Often it's worse.. a feature that could have been accepted
upstream has been implemented slightly different in the local
fork, the result being that newer features depending …
The slides for my Monitoring MySQL talk , which I gave earlier today in an overcrowded MySQl Developersroom at Fosdem are now online, both at my site and at Slideshare
As of now I actually expect people to use those slides for
schoolwork or next year in a main Fosdem track :)
As afterall that is the goal of Open Source and spreading the
word ..
MySQL Monitoring Shoot Out View more presentations from Kris Buytaert. (tags: mysql …
[Read more]When I read Monty's post on leaving this passage struck me the most.
The main reason for leaving was that I am not satisfied with the way the MySQL server has been developed, as can be seen on my previous blog post. In particular I would have like to see the server development to be moved to a true open development environment that would encourage outside participation and without any need of differentiation on the source code. Sun has been considering opening up the server development, but the pace has been too slow.
In short, Sun isn't open enough. I think I've said that enough, it's typically more Open Core than Open Source .. and for a growing amount of people.. that isn't good enough.
Reacting on that post we see Matt Asay …
[Read more]In just over 2 weeks I’ll be the invited speaker in Washington DC to Best practices for migrating applications to MySQL. This workshop is being held in conjunction with Carahsoft and Sun/MySQL and aims to provide to the Federal sector valuable information for the continued usage and uptake of Open Source and specifically MySQL.
As part of my preparation I’m happy to hear from any organizations that have successfully migrated from Oracle/SQL Server/Informix/Sybase etc to MySQL and would like to be cited.
While I have been involved in the process I am also happy to hear of reasons why a migration failed, was aborted or postponed. This is all valuable information in determining what are the most ideal applications.
There are plenty of new databases coming out, aiming to tackle the massively scalable domain that Google's BigTable pioneered. On the Radar mailing list, Jesse pointed out Cassandra (Facebook's offering) and Mike Loukides countered with Hypertable, asking "We're sort of being overrun with BigTable-style databases; I wonder what's going to win?". (Artur observed, "Cassandra is less like BigTable and more like a distributed column store with autocreating and searching in column namespace, but lacks a lot of indexing needed for BigTable.")
Jesse replied it'd be the one that's easiest for developers to use quickly, and I expanded that to:
Java and MySQL are bright spots in the quarter, while Solaris and
virtualization sputter. READ MORE
This is Zak Greant's weekly report on his activities for the Mozilla Foundation from January 19th to 25th, 2009.
Wading through heaps of Mozilla email and feeds last week paid off this week. Instead of worrying about what I hadn't read or wondering where I was duplicating other's work, I was able to focus on program development with most of my effort going into developing the Mozilla Social Movement Program Concept, working on the Mozilla Manifesto Stories experiment and catching up with my peers. At 54 hours, the week was a bit long but I was glad to be able to focus. …
[Read more]Learn how to extend your existing MySQL based website to leverage the power of MySQL variants, AWS cloud based MySQL deployments and RDBMS alternatives. Evaluate how to integrate and use these different various technologies such as MySQL based variations KickFire, a column based optimization and InfoBright, a data warehousing solution. Understand the means of approach towards data synchronization between various database solutions in your business.
At the MySQL Meetup in New York this month, I spoke on “Extending the MySQL Data Landscape“. A MySQL centric view on an earlier work, “The Data Landscape” which I presented at a recent GoDaddy Tech Day.
You can download the presentation on my Presentations page.
Good news!
DBD::mysql
I have a new co-maintainer who is going to help out with
DBD::mysql, particularly with Windows build issues with
Strawberry Perl. His name is Matthew Wilson. He "works part-time
for a hedge fund maintaining predictive market models. " and I'm
looking forward to working with him to improve DBD::mysql.
Things on the agenda for DBD::mysql :
* Build issues, particularly with Windows
* Any bugs that need fixing
* Change to a new SVN server, as well as get moved to
Launchpad
Memcached Functions for MySQL
New release this week, 0.8. Numerous fixes, particularly to
behaviors functions. They will work now!
Thats all for now. I'm in the middle of writting a book, so must
get back to work!