Wednesday, August 31, 2011

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.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

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 ! 


Tuesday, August 23, 2011

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.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

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/

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

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 21st 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.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

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.

Friday, August 5, 2011

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