I interviewed Bernard Golden, CEO of Navica, the other day at the 2006 MySQL User’s Conference. Bernard is always worth listening to, and hopefully our audio interview will appear on Distributing the Future sometime soon. I hope it’s fair to say that Bernard believes that the economic advantage of open source software is so compelling that companies cannot avoid it.
Writes Antone Gonsalves of TechWeb.com:
Users of the open-source database will soon be able to get consulting, integration, and support services from Hewlett-Packard…Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday said it plans to roll out next month consulting, integration and support services for customers implementing the MySQL open source database…HP plans to sell the services directly in May, and via channel partners in June. The announcement was made at the annual MySQL Users Conference in Santa Clara, Calif.
HP’s VP Christine Martino
“Hewlett-Packard is turning itself into a one-stop support shop for MySQL database users,” observed Lisa Vaas last Tuesday. “On April 25, HP plans to announce at the MySQL Users Conference here that it is expanding its support for the open-source database with consulting, integration, support services and reselling of MySQL Network subscription services by HP’s channel partners.”
“MySQL’s chief executive has cast himself as both friend and foe of closed-source database companies, criticizing partners and competitors for releasing ‘crippled’ versions of existing database products,” writes Gavin Clarke.
From the article:
Marten Mickos
Open source database company MySQL said Wednesday it’s opening up its database to several storage engines–products that help determine how data is stored and indexed–in a move aimed at giving its customers greater ability to customize their databases.
MySQL’s new certification program will allow partners and community developers to build their own storage engines, to give customers and users the ability to create custom engines and plug them into MySQL’s database architecture. Storage engines are essentially the kernels of open source databases.
Dave Rosenberg over at the Open Sources blog stopped by the MySQL Users Conference this week. He didn’t mention the conference (PR Gal sighes regretfully), but has three posts on conference sponsors:
Five Runs–Open Source Systems Management
FiveRuns offers system management software, both as open source software and as a hosted service. Functionality includes monitoring, analyzing, reporting and predicting system health.
Zmanda–Open Source Data Protection
There is a huge market for storage products, backup and recovery, data protection and such. In the open source space, only Zmanda seems to be making any progress with the open source approach to this problem.
SolidDB and MySQL making open source databases better for enterprise
According to Paola Lubet, VP of Marketing at SolidDB, the major roadblock for OSS databases into mission-critical environments is the real time nature of transactional data. SolidDB has been developing real-time databases for the last 14 years with features that go beyond basic storage
Quoth the release:
MySQL AB, developer of the world’s most popular open source database, today introduced MySQL Forge, a new Web site and community directory designed to encourage and support active MySQL-related open source development. Located at http://forge.mysql.com, MySQL Forge is a central online resource for all MySQL users and developers to communicate, collaborate and share MySQL code and applications.
MySQL also announced new support for Ubuntu, a version of the Linux operating system that is gaining popularity among open source developers. In a keynote address today at the MySQL Users Conference 2006, Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of the Ubuntu project, outlined the new partnership and technology collaboration between Ubuntu and MySQL.
Monty, David, and Kaj during the opening session
More from Lisa Vaas’ Reporter’s Notebook:
With all the good news about storage engines coming out of the MySQL Users Conference, why weren’t MySQL cofounders Widenius and Axmark dancing on stage, punching the air and crying, “Engines, engines, engines!”?
“Any lingering doubts about MySQL’s ability to cook up its own darn storage engines in the wake of Oracle’s having bought two out from under it are now deader than doorknobs,” writes Lisa Vaas. “To wit: MySQL opened its Users Conference in Santa Clara, Calif., on April 24 with a veritable gusher of storage engine goodness.”
Rich Seeley just posted an article on the LogicBlaze announcment:
LogicBlaze Inc. and MySQL yesterday announced a partnership that brings together many of the hottest commodities in IT: service-oriented architecture, LAMP stack development and Ajax.
The combination, called LogicBlaze FUSE for MySQL, brings together LogicBlaze’s enterprise service bus (ESB) platform, available as an Apache License 2.0 open source download, with the MySQL database. The partnership, unveiled Tuesday on the opening day of the MySQL User Conference 2006 in Santa Clara, Calif., is targeted at architects and developers working with the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) programming model, as well as Ajax, said Rich Peterson, vice president marketing for LogicBlaze.
Stephen Shankland writes:
Mickos, speaking at the MySQL Users Conference here on Wednesday, praised Oracle and took it to task for different elements of its software. The contrast stems from the fact that, on the one hand, MySQL relies on software called InnoDB that Oracle acquired in 2005, and on the other, database leaders Oracle and IBM are responding to MySQL’s sudden emergence as a competitor by releasing free entry-level versions.
TCM.net picked up the press release MySQL put out today:
MySQL AB to Promote New Open Source Database Engines from Its Premier Partners and Developer Community
MySQL AB today announced plans for a certification program for the many powerful database storage engines being developed for its flagship MySQL database server by third-party partners and the open source developer community. Several industry-leading companies — including Innobase OY (a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation) and Solid Information Technology — are supporting the new program by joining MySQL AB in producing open source engines for the millions of MySQL(R) database users worldwide.
Speaker manager Vee McMillan reports that she’s starting to post speaker presentations from the in-progress MySQL Users Conference. She’ll post more as the speakers share their presentations with her.
Speaking of checking out MySQL Users Conference stuff, be sure to visit James Duncan Davidson’s most excellent photo set on Flickr.
Marten Mickos, MySQL’s fearless leader, passed out more trophies this morning:
Applications of the Year: Nokia, Flickr, and NetQoS
Partners of the Year: BusinessObjects, Dell, and Oracle
MySQL AB is making another announcment at the conference this morning:
MySQL AB today announced plans for a certification program for the many powerful database storage engines being developed for its flagship MySQL database server by third-party partners and the open source developer community. Several industry-leading companies — including Innobase OY (a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation) and Solid Information Technology — are supporting the new program by joining MySQL AB in producing open source engines for the millions of MySQL database users worldwide.
Writes Alun Williams:
HP is hooking up with MySQL AB, provider of the popular open source database management systems. The news emerged from the annual MySQL Users Conference, which is being held in in Santa Clara, California.
As part of the agreement, HP says it will provide consulting, integration and support services for its customers implementing MySQL Network database systems (certified software that comes with premium support services, rather than the free vanilla offering). It also means that HP and its channel partners will resell MySQL Network subscription services directly from HP beginning in May and via channel partners from June.
Four award winners received recognition during the morning keynote presentations (Rasmus was handed a Falcon beer as well as a trophy):
Giuseppe Maxia received his award from David Axmark
Community Contributor of the Year: Giuseppe Maxia
“This award is given to an individual who has displayed remarkable commitment to the MySQL community by delivering quality code contributions, bug reports, and technical documentation and writing.”
Community Forum Leader of the Year: Roland Bouman
“This awards recognizes an individual who has displayed remarkable
efforts–insightful, committed, and always cheerful–to assist and guide others on the MySQL forums this year.”
Community Writer of the Year: Markus Popp
“This individual has written scores of blog entries detailing technical issues and scenarios with MySQL and written countless articles on numerous websites while maintaining a free MySQL 5 testing and training website for the MySQL community.”
Long-term contributor to the MySQL Community: Rasmus Lerdorf
“This award goes to the Father of the standards-defying LIMIT statement. He has inspired our founders to build a community around MySQL. He is the guy behind the OS project that has contributed the most to the spreading of MySQL.”
If you’ve been wondering who exactly is going to be speaking at Where 2.0 and what about, here’s your answer: the schedule has just been posted. Nat and Brady are still tweaking it a bit, but it’s mostly baked.
FYI, if you’re thinking about coming, you’ll save a few bucks (400 of ‘em, to be exact) if you sign up by May 1.
Giuseppe Maxia, a speaker at this week’s MySQL Users Conference, recently posted an ONLamp article on Advanced MySQL Replication Techniques that shows how to build a high-availability master/slave replication system in MySQL 5.0 and 5.1.
Guiseppe is also the recipient of the award for Community Contributor of the Year, announced today at MySQL Users Conference, which recognizes outstanding efforts in the area of technical contribution to the MySQL Community.
In preparation for his keynote presentation here at the MySQL Users Conference tomorrow, Tim O’Reilly is surveying Web 2.0-types about how they are using databases in their applications. His first post includes a few thoughts from Cory Ondrejka and Ian Wilkes of Linden Labs, creators of Second Life.
A great partnership was announced this morning between our friends at HP and MySQL AB: HP will offer new services for MySQL database software. From the release:
As part of an agreement, HP will provide consulting, integration and support services for customers implementing MySQL Network database software into their technology environments. HP and its channel partners also will resell MySQL Network subscription services. HP plans to sell the services directly beginning in May and via channel partners in June.
Greg over at Cleversafe, another most excellent Gold Sponsor, sent over an announcement on their Dispersed Storage Open Source project created at University Technology Park At IIT (UTP), which focuses “on a more secure, more reliable way to store the world’s data.” It’s a joint announcement with the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT).
YAA (Yet Another Announcement) from another much-appreciated Gold Sponsor, Continuent:
Open Source-Based Solution Provides Enterprises Running MySQL 5.0 with Advanced Database Replication and High Availability for Mission-Critical Applications
Continuent, Inc., the leading provider of commercial open source middleware solutions for database high availability, today announced Continuent™ m/cluster 2006. This newest version of Continuent’s m/cluster software provides the highest levels of availability and scalability for applications built using the MySQL database, and includes support for MySQL 5.0.
And now an announcement from one of our Gold Sponsors (thanks!), Zmanda:
Zmanda, the only company providing business-ready open source software for corporate data protection, today launched its flagship offering: the Zmanda Network with the new Amanda Enterprise Edition software. The Zmanda Network is a suite of enterprise-ready software and services based on the popular Amanda open source data backup and recovery technology. Zmanda is the first company to provide affordable, easy to use and enterprise-grade open source software for the critical operational task of protecting corporate data.
Another announcement from one of our exhibitors (have I mentioned that our exhibit hall is sold out?!): The MySQL-BitRock partnership extends BitRock’s offerings to include MySQL Network Certified binary integration with its easy to install stacks of open source software.
One of our exhibitors, LogicBlaze, has announced that it has entered into an agreement with MySQL, under which LogicBlaze will distribute the open source LogicBlaze FUSE solution for SOA and Web 2.0 in a new configuration developed exclusively for the MySQL database, enabling an open source approach to SOA for the LAMP application stack. LogicBlaze FUSE for MySQL delivers scalability, connectivity for LAMP applications.
“Information Edge Lights the LAMP: Free Enterprise Grade OLAP for MySQL 5.0,” reads a press release from our sponsor, Information Edge. TeraSolve Standard is the first free and scalable OLAP technology in the world.
Information Edge, the leading innovator of BI analytical applications is launching TeraSolve Standard for MySQL 5.0 at the MySQL Users Conference 2006. TeraSolve Standard is a free patented OLAP technology that makes MySQL OLAP-aware.
A little more info on that MySQL Users Conference announcement from our sponsor, Embarcadero:
2005 MySQL “Partner of the Year” Embarcadero® Technologies, a leading provider of strategic data management solutions, today announced it will offer a MySQL Bundle Promotion that coincides with the company’s participation in the MySQL Users Conference 2006. Glen Hawkins, head of Data Integration Solutions at Embarcadero Technologies, will lead a discussion focused on migrating data into MySQL on Wednesday, April 26.
Jeff Bonforte, senior director of Voice Product Management at Yahoo!, spoke at ETel earlier this year; ITC has just posted audio of his presentation. From the ITC description:
Jeff Bonforte of Yahoo! believes Voice 3.0, the next phase in voice communications, will require more than a reinvention of the existing PSTN. It requires the ability to directly integrate voice with the content, applications, services, and data available on the internet.
An announcement from JasperSoft, one of our our friendly neighborhood MySQL Users Conference sponors:
JasperSoft Corporation, the leader in open source business intelligence, today announced JasperIntelligence, new open source business intelligence (BI) architecture designed to bring data integration, reporting and analysis to everyone, from customers and business professionals to functional managers up to CEOs.
JasperSoft also announced the immediate availability of JasperServer, a new open source business intelligence server and critical component of JasperIntelligence that provides a robust and economical way for enterprise developers and ISVs to easily create business intelligence (BI) reports.
TCM.net picked up a press release from Embarcadero Technologies, the 2005 MySQL “Partner of the Year.”
Embarcadero(R) Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:EMBT), a leading provider of strategic data management solutions, today announced it will reinforce its commitment to the MySQL developer community by offering a MySQL Bundle Promotion that coincides with the company’s participation in the MySQL Users Conference 2006, held this year at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California, from April 24 through the 27.
Read more here.
Exadel, Inc., a leading provider of software, services and support that enable companies to create mission-critical business applications based on open source and Java™ technologies, today announced that Exadel will present at the Fourth Annual MySQL Users Conference to be held at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, California.
“At next week’s MySQL users conference, the company will discuss its own storage engine, currently in development and code-named Falcon, as well as new deals it has recently inked to allow others to play nicely,” writes CRN’s Barbara Darrow.
China Martens of IDG News Service writes, in part, “The two companies are already teaming up in some early unspecified areas, [CEO Marten Mickos] added, pointing to IBM’s sponsorship of the MySQL Users Conference due to take place April 24-27 in Santa Clara, California.”
The release begins:
Greg Gianforte Encourages Next Generation of Software Entrepreneurs to Start and Grow Market-Driven Businesses Without Venture Capital
BOZEMAN, Mont., April 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — RightNow® Technologies (Nasdaq: RNOW - News) today announced that founder and CEO Greg Gianforte is bringing his bootstrapping message to the MySQL Users Conference 2006, which is being held April 24-27 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Gianforte’s presentation will encourage the next generation of software entrepreneurs to start and grow market-driven businesses without depending on excessive outside venture capital investments.
“It would compete with InnoDB and MySQL’s own upcoming storage engine,” writes Eric Lai:
Solid Information Technology Inc., which makes embedded databases that are widely used in telecommunications equipment, yesterday announced plans to release an open-source version of its core storage engine that is compatible with the popular MySQL database. Cupertino, Calif.-based Solid will make a prototype of its online transaction processing storage engine, solidDB, available for download next Monday. The release coincides with the start of MySQL’s annual user conference in Santa Clara, Calif.
For additional information, read the official press release here.
Ritesh Nadhani over at Webyog–a MySQL Users Conference sponsor, thanks!–just sent this announcement:
Webyog Softworks, a MySQL Network Gold Certified Partner and a renowned developer of data management tools, today announces the release of SQLyog 5.2. The latest version contains SQLyog Migration toolkit that allows you to import data, table structures, indexes, foreign keys, constraints from any ODBC compliant data source into MySQL. The import session can be saved in a XML configuration file which can then be executed repeatedly using SQLyog Job Agent(SJA).
They’ll issue a full press release with more info on Monday. And of course more details will be available at the their booth at the MySQL Users Conference, which gets underway next week.
Phil Windley over at IT Conversations has just posted audio of Jeff Waugh’s 2005 EuroOSCON presentation.
Jeff Waugh gives a lively and entertaining rebuttal to Asa Dotzler’s provocative OSCON challenge to the free software developers engaged in the “Search for the Linux Desktop”. For the desktop to become a more pleasing experience, Waugh argues, software creators must understand that 99% (or even 99.99%) of the population doesn’t care all that much about computers. The kind of people who hang out at OSCON may not always “get” what the average person is experiencing or wanting from their computer. To bridge this gap, a recent cultural shift among GNOME developers has put more focus on user interface, stability and universal access. Migration to Linux from proprietary operating systems is still a tough nut, but there is some progress there too.
PS, we’re getting ready to unveil the program and open registration for EuroOSCON 2006, which is happening in Brussels, September 18-21. Keep your eye on the EuroOSCON homepage for details.
Sam Williams writes that “measuring exactly who’s looking at what and for how long, some experts say, is the Web’s new gold.” He cites several examples of how new companies and projects, many featured at ETech, are addressing attention.
Tim O’Reilly has some thoughts on Sam’s article over on the O’Reilly Radar, too: “‘Attention’ is one of the important vectors for thinking about ‘collective intelligence,’ which is really the lynchpin of Web 2.0.”
The Summer of Code 2006 is on, sez Slashdot and Chris DiBona:
chrisd writes “The Summer of Code is officially on again this year. As of today, we’re taking in applications from mentoring organizations, so watch that list of mentoring organizations grow! Then, starting May 1st, we’ll start taking student applications. We’ve prepared two FAQs, one for Mentors and one for Students. We’ve also have created an IRC channel and Google Group for you. The website for the Summer of Code can be found at http://code.google.com/soc/.”
Notes OSCON program chair Nat Torkington in the O’Reilly Radar:
I’m very pleased to have Chris DiBona (the father of Summer of Code) at OSCON to fill us in on how the 2006 edition is going.
