MySQL Community Reception at Oracle OpenWorld

Save the date ! Tuesday, October 04, 2011 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

You’re all invited to Oracle’s MySQL Community Reception. This event is open to everyone. No OpenWorld registration is required to attend.

Register Now !

MySQL Developer Day in DC

Many thanks to all of those from MySQL Community who attended the Washington DC Developer day.

We had great questions from a full room of community users and we look forward to any feedback that you might have.

I look forward to the next one ! 

Excitement at Goscon

The Goscon event was cut short today due to the earthquake. The 5.9 quake was felt as we had the MySQL team was supporting the booth. Nothing like a little more excitement to awaken the show floor.

All was not lost, it was good to see and talk with Baron Schwartz from Percona.

The MySQL Developer Days are still planned for tomorrow .

Show your support for MySQL Workbench !

The 2011 DevProConnections CommunityChoice Awards has two categories that include nominations for MySQL Workbench !

You can support MySQL Workbench with your vote. The two categories that include Workbench are, “Component Set” (page 1 # 7) and “IDE” (page 2 #14).

The survey is available here and information about workbench is always available here: http://www.mysql.com/products/workbench/

Future of Open Source

Back in 1995 we had the Initial releases of the Apache Server, MySQL and PHP. Three major open source projects that still power the web today. Majority of them running on GNU/Linux platforms.

Apache then soon also added Tomcat as well to the mix to further enhance this powerful combination. So what is next?

Now that we are well into the 21^st century, what will be the next stable projects of the Internet? What will change how we use the Internet? Certainly we have great projects like phpMyAdmin, Zimbra, Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress, SugarCRM, Mozilla and OpenOffice, osCommerce and memcached. I am sure I missed some.  I am not discrediting any of these projects, I have used and supported them. I am more curious about what we all think is the next big thing to change the way we relate and present things on the Internet. Will Cloudera , Owncloud , VoltDB, Postgresql, or OpenStack change how we do things ? Will the mobile market be revolutionized by open source software? Will cloud computing be the answer?

Time will tell but I am very curious about others opinions.

MySQL 5.6 Feedback

To follow up on a post by Dave --

The MySQL Community Team would like your feedback about MySQL 5.6 ! What are you excited to see and test? What have you tested and benchmarked? Did you previously see the advantages of going to MySQL 5.5 and now eager to try 5.6? What are your favorite new features: Full Text Search InnoDB tables, Binary Log API, Binary Log Group Commit, multi-thread slaves, memcached-to-InnoDB? Feel free to email keith.larson[@]oracle[.]com with feedback.

If you have been busy with development, and not realized that previews of MySQL 5.6 are available, then now is your chance. Previews of MySQL 5.6 are available at http://labs.mysql.com for you to evaluate.

Innovation Nation & GOSCON 2011

I just got a pile of MySQL shirts and stickers for the Goscon show!


The MySQL team will showcase the latest product developments and demos running on a Sun Ray at the Exhibition Hall, and we look forward to meeting you there! 


For more information:


http://www.oracle.com/webapps/events/ns/EventsDetail.jsp?p_eventId=140023&src=7314534&src=7314534&Act=78