The MySQL Telecom sales team is a global team, but it happens to be organized under the EMEA region of the MySQL sales department. Since the EMEA region is having a staff meeting in Dublin this week, it means also we in the telecom team are gathered here. A good opportunity to meet your globally dispersed collagues.

Zack Urlocker was the special guest star from headquarters. He presented a freudian-slip-slide saying that MySQL 5.1 will be released GA in July 2009. After lots of laughter he concessed that maybe engineering can pull it of faster, like maybe July 2008.

Another hot topic Zack talked about was to review how the integration with Sun is going...

...we concluded at least some of us are adapting just fine :-)

The MySQL Telecom sales team is a global team, but it happens to be organized under the EMEA region of the MySQL sales department. Since the EMEA region is having a staff meeting in Dublin this week, it means also we in the telecom team are gathered here. A good opportunity to meet your globally dispersed collagues.

Zack Urlocker was the special guest star from headquarters. He presented a freudian-slip-slide saying that MySQL 5.1 will be released GA in July 2009. After lots of laughter he concessed that maybe engineering can pull it of faster, like maybe July 2008.

Another hot topic Zack talked about was to review how the integration with Sun is going...

...we concluded at least some of us are adapting just fine :-)

Spot the problem:

You work for company X.

• Phone rings: “Hi, my name is Alice, I work for company X”
• “Hi Alice, this is Bob, in order to verify that you do actually work for X, what is your employee number and phone extension, I’ll call you back when verified”.
• “Okay Bob, it’s Alice, employee number 1234 and I’m on 555-5555″
• You look up the employee database and sure enough, Alice is there with number 1234.

Were you talking to Alice?

Will you be talking to Alice if you dial 555-5555?

Half a year has gone, most of it with my new company, Sun Microsystems.Kaj has made a detailed digest of his first half.
I took the DBA approach and queried the Planet MySQL database. I know that this qualifies as cheating, but I could not resist.
I published a total of 111 blog posts since January, with peaks in March and April (the users conference was coming).
I wrot about most everything, but some topics are prominent. Users Conference and MySQL proxy …

Blogs are good for many things. One of them is not easy aggregation. So I decided to make this digest blog of the 71 blog entries I’ve written so far in 2008.

The first category is Sun-MySQL acquisition and integration. To be specific, the first blog entry in this category didn’t even touch upon Sun; on 7 January 2008, I noted that nearly all of us 400 MySQLers met in Orlando, Florida. Then and there, on 16 January, we announced that Sun acquires MySQL. The same day, I spoke to the MySQL founders Monty and David on their Sun feelings, and bragged that we “ …

In October 2003, Mick Carney (the first MySQLer in Sales in France) convinced us to choose Véronique Loquet and her company Al’x Communication as MySQL’s French PR agency.

And what an excellent choice it was! Véronique and her Paris team have been with us now for nearly five years. Her contacts are excellent, as are her organising skills. She practically embodies PR for les logiciels libres (Free and Open Source Software) in France.

Véronique has visited the MySQL Users Conference in Santa Clara several times, and of course introduced us to numerous French journalists, fixing plenty of meetings for Mårten, Zack, myself and others.

Being acquired by Sun Microsystems does have many more ups than it has downs, but one …

Under the title of “From MySQL to Sun“, I’m writing a monthly column to a Swedish-language business publication called “Forum för Ekonomi och Teknik“, about the Sun-MySQL integration.

If you happen to read …

Teknologföreningen (or TF for short) is the Swedish language student corporation at Helsinki University of Technology. That’s where I started my studies in 1981 at the Department of Physics, together with Mårten Mickos and Michael “Monty” Widenius.

TF has a tradition of each year publishing “ …

Late February 2002 at the recommendation of our then-advisor Florian Müller, I first met with Ingrid Vos at Cafe Glockenspiel in Munich. Right thereafter, her company Marketing Communications became MySQL’s German PR agency.

Ingrid and her Munich based team have accompanied MySQL AB — and specifically MySQL GmbH — now for over six years. It has been a fantastic ride together. She has introduced us to numerous German journalists, and fixed plenty of meetings for Mårten, myself and others. Always with efficiency, a positive attitude, a happy smile and a friendly Austrian touch.

Being acquired by Sun Microsystems means changes in how we …