The MySQL Conference and Expo is the largest gathering of MySQL developers, users, open source innovators, and technology partners on the planet.
I’ve been involved in the MySQL Conference & Expo ever since O’Reilly partnered with MySQL for the event in 2005. I *heart* this event for many reasons:
- it’s a tightly focused, deep dive into a very specific technology, but still feels connected to the bigger open source community.
- MySQL folks take their tasks and goals very seriously–they really work on stuff that matters as Tim O’Reilly would say, and what they accomplish has a very real effect on the bottom line of many a company. It’s rewarding to play a small part in facilitating that.
- MySQL is a particularly global community, and the event brings together people who don’t see each other very often or who have only known each other virtually. Watching the attendees connect in person is a joy to behold.
- An incredible cross section of the MySQL ecosystem comes. Recent adopters, gurus, grizzled programmers–it’s a place to meet the “who’s who” while making the new folks feel welcome.
- MySQL technology gets people really, really psyched and that enthusiasm is infectious. It’s obvious people care about making it a better technology.
- The conference has a lot of traditions (the Quiz Show!) and that consistency is comforting–you know what you’re gonna get when you head to the CE year after year.
- As a Virgo, I appreciate the MySQL dedication to order and getting things right; it’s wonderful to work with such a thoughtful crew.
The MySQL Conference program team has rotated over the years, giving O’Reilly folks a chance to work with new people, which has been a wonderful experience. They’re mindful of maintaining the traditions I mentioned, but they also are up for trying new things.
For instance, one of the biggest additions to the CE in 2009 is MySQL Camp. Colin Charles, Giuseppe Maxia, and the rest of the program team really wanted to make a place for community members at the conference. They came up with this “unconference” component, headed up by Sheeri K. Cabral. Definitely a “uniter” in the MySQL community, Sheeri is a great choice to organize the event.
We’ll be posting more details soon about this and other interesting extracurricular stuff happening in the very near future. In the meantime, check out the formal program.
Sebastopol, CA, Dec 18 2008—Sun Microsystems and O’Reilly Media have now opened registration and unveiled the program for the seventh annual MySQL Conference & Expo, April 20-23, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. The world’s largest open source database event unites over 2,000 MySQL enthusiasts to harness the power of MySQL and celebrate the huge MySQL community.
Read the full press release.
Open Source and Database Enthusiasts Gather to Work/Learn Together
Sebastopol, CA–O’Reilly Media has opened the Call for Participation for the 2009 MySQL Conference & Expo, scheduled for April 20-23, in Santa Clara, California. Conference program chair Colin Charles and the program committee invite proposals for conference sessions, panel discussions, and tutorials. More than 2,000 attendees are expected to participate in over 120 sessions at next year’s event.
Proposals can be submitted here. The deadline runs through October 22, 2008.
Co-presented by O’Reilly Media and Sun Microsystems, the MySQL Conference & Expo is the largest gathering of MySQL developers, users, and DBAs worldwide. The event reflects MySQL’s wide-ranging appeal and capabilities. The open atmosphere of the MySQL Conference & Expo helps IT professionals and community members create the best database applications, tools, and software through expert instruction, hands-on tutorials, and interaction with readily available MySQL developers. Users gain the knowledge they need to rapidly build solid applications with MySQL that scale with the enterprise. New to the 2009 program will be MySQLCamp, a place where any and all participants can create an “unconference” within the larger event.
Read the full press release.
Brandon Bailey, of the Mercury News has an excellent Q & A Session with Marten Mickos, discussing how “how MySQL fits into Sun’s efforts” and visa versa.
James Niccolai notes the various points of view regarding Suns’ recent acquisition of MySQL from MySQL conference-goers:
Customers at the MySQL conference this week said Sun Microsystems’ acquisition of the database company could increase MySQL’s credibility among senior IT decision makers still skittish about using open-source software.
There were some, though, who feared that ownership of MySQL by a traditional IT vendor would diminish growth in the community of MySQL developers, who provide a regular stream of patches and new features for the database.
Zmanda Presents “Radically Simple” MySQL Backup and Recovery at MySQL Conference & Expo 2008
Santa Clara, Calif. (PRWEB) April 15, 2008 — Zmanda, Inc., the open source leader in backup and recovery software, today announced that its CEO and founder, Chander Kant, will deliver a keynote presentation on “Radically Simple Backup & Recovery for Live MySQL,” at the sixth annual MySQL Conference and Expo. Ann Ruckstuhl, Zmanda’s vice president of sales and marketing, and Dmitri Joukovski, vice president of product management, will also lead conference sessions highlighting technology solutions for backing up and recovering MySQL databases.
Rich Whiting examines the enhancements promised with Sun Microsystems slated June release of MySQL 5.1,
The new release, for example, offers faster query response times by supporting both table and index data partitioning. With partitioning, only the relevant portions of a data set need to be scanned for a query instead of the entire table or index. Such partitioning also accelerates some data storage and database maintenance operations, according to Sun.
Paula Rooney discusses the “near final” release of MySQL 5.1, which Sun Microsystem will debut later this quarter.
MindTouch Primed to Accelerate Market Expansion as It Achieves Segment Leading Customer Growth and Market Successes
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MindTouch, the company behind the most sophisticated wiki available today is delivering the most full-featured application platform. MindTouch Deki Wiki, which empowers everyday users to create real-time reports and integrate systems quickly, while preserving IT governance, has set major new benchmarks for company growth in the most recent calendar quarter ending March 31. This quarter was MindTouch’s largest ever with respect to sales, revenue, and enterprise deployments - and is the fifth consecutive quarter of increasing sales. MindTouch is showcasing Deki Wiki this week at the MySQL Conference and Expo in the DotOrg Pavilion, which is located in the Expo Hall.
New Database Appliance from Kickfire Propels Sun Microsystems’ MySQL to Number One in Data Warehousing Price-Performance
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kickfire™, Inc. and Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA) today announced Transaction Processing Performance Council - H (TPC-H) benchmark results that break previous price-performance records. The benchmarks were run on Kickfire’s new database appliance, which is based on Sun’s MySQL™ database. The Kickfire Database Appliance demonstrates the speed of high-performance commercial database systems at a fraction of the cost with an exceptionally small, low-power footprint and the hallmark ease-of-use of MySQL, the world’s most popular open source database.
Across the pond, Peter Judge writes about the Sun acquisition of MySQL which was big news at the conference last week:
Sun has delivered a “near final” build of the next version of MySQL and has promised to make no changes to the culture of the open-source database organisation whose $1bn (£500m) purchase was announced in January. A release candidate of Version 5.1 of MySQL can be downloaded now, but the full production version should be ready by June, said Marten Mickos, former chief executive of MySQL and now a Sun vice president. He has no desire to repeat the bug problems of MySQL 5.0, which the company released two years ago, he told the sixth annual MySQL Conference & Expo, in Santa Clara, California, this week.
Zack Urlocker gives a good overview of the conference.
SANTA CLARA, CA. — April 16, 2008 — Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the availability of MySQL™ Workbench, a new visual database design tool that integrates data modeling, physical database design, database creation, change management and documentation capabilities into a single, seamless environment for MySQL developers and DBAs.
MySQL Workbench is available for download in two versions: an open source Community Edition and a (US) $99 commercial Standard Edition. Both are available now for Microsoft Windows, with future cross-platform support for Linux and Macintosh OS X under development.
The announcement was made this morning at the sixth annual MySQL Conference and Expo. With nearly 2,000 attendees, it is the world’s largest community event for open source database developers, users, DBAs, vendors and corporate IT managers.
Sun Microsystems pushed out a “near final” version of MySQL 5.1 on Tuesday, but is holding back the production release of the open-source database until it irons out some remaining bugs, officials said Tuesday. James Niccolai reports from MySQL.
When Sun Microsystems paid $1 billion to buy MySQL, perhaps the biggest question facing the merger was the apparent culture clash, writes Charles Cooper.
Charles Babcock talked to Sun Microsystems senior VP Marten Mickos. “Sun has a lot of expertise in scalability,” he said in an interview following his keynote before the MySQL Conference & Expo, an annual MySQL user group meeting, in Santa Clara, Calif. Tuesday.
San Jose, CA April 15, 2008 - Continuent, Inc., the leading provider of
commercial open source middleware solutions for database high-availability
and scalability, today announced a key addition to their executive
management team. Craig Stevens joins Continuent as Vice President of
Worldwide Sales and Marketing, responsible for expanding its customer base
and building long-term relationships with clients. Read the full release here .
MySQL Conference & Expo, Santa Clara, CA - April 15, 2008 - Continuent, Inc., a leading provider of commercial open-source middleware solutions for database high availability, today announced support for Sun Microsystems’ Solaris™ operating system (OS). Continuent uni/cluster 2008 benefits Solaris customers who find themselves challenged with highly demanding workloads, making database high availability and scalability fast and easy for mission-critical applications.
Read more details here.
Sun Celebrates Third-Party MySQL Storage Engines
Oracle, Kickfire, PrimeBase Technologies and Infobright Join Sun in Supporting the World’s Most Popular Open Source Database
SANTA CLARA, CA. — April 15, 2008 — Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced new and enhanced third-party support for the MySQL(TM) database’s unique pluggable storage engine architecture. The MySQL Certified Storage Engine Program (www.mysql.com/engines) enables commercial and community database engine developers to certify that their software has been tested and is compatible with Sun’s MySQL Database Server - helping to assure MySQL users that these certified engines have reached high-level standards of usability, performance and integration.
Sun also helps promote these third-party solutions to its MySQL database customers and open source community through a range of co-marketing activities.
Sun Microsystems Announces MySQL 5.1C
New Version of the World’s Most Popular Open Source Database
Delivers up to 15 Percent Higher Performance for Large-Scale Enterprise Applications
SANTA CLARA, CA. — April 15, 2008 — Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the pending general availability of MySQL(TM) 5.1, a new version of the world’s most popular open source database, designed to improve performance and simplify management of large database applications. A near-final release candidate of the GPL software is available for download now at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/.
The announcement was made this morning at the sixth annual MySQL Conference and Expo . With nearly 2,000 attendees, it is the world’s largest community event for open source database developers, users, DBAs, vendors and corporate IT managers.
April 14, 2008 , MySQL Conference & Expo, SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kickfire™, Inc. and Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA) today announced Transaction Processing Performance Council - H (TPC-H) benchmark results that break previous price-performance records.
April 14, 2008, SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kickfire™, Inc. today announced the first MySQL database appliance that brings the high-performance capabilities of large commercial database systems to the MySQL market. The company, which officially launches this week at the MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, CA, has built its appliance by developing an ultra-modern database kernel and a revolutionary SQL chip that packs the power of 10s of high-end CPUs. The result is a small form-factor MySQL appliance that delivers the high performance of large systems but with dramatically lower hardware, power, and cooling costs.
SANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwire - April 14, 2008) - MySQL Conference & Expo 2008 — Infobright, the first analytic data warehouse provider to be named a MySQL Certified Storage Engine Partner, today announced that its executives will be presenting in two sessions at the sixth annual MySQL Conference & Expo. Infobright’s CEO, Miriam Tuerk, and vice president of engineering, Victoria Eastwood, will highlight Infobright’s role in enabling MySQL users to reach new levels of performance and scalability with their data warehouses. Read the full release .
Kickfire™, Inc. today announced partnerships with five leading vendors in the open source world to provide joint customers the ability to deploy robust, full-stack, business intelligence solutions that leverage the industry’s first high-performance MySQL database appliance. Launched this week at the MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, CA, Kickfire’s family of database appliances bring the power of the highest performing commercial database systems to the MySQL market at a fraction of the cost.
kylehase writes “CIO.com has a writeup about MySQL’s 5.1 release planned for next week. Among the enhancements are many bug fixes from 5.0.” Read more on this
MySQL developers should be able to get their hands on a major update to the open-source database next week when Sun Microsystems hosts its first MySQL conference since acquiring the company earlier this year,” writes James Niccolai. “Sun will use the event in Santa Clara, California, to release MySQL 5.1, an upgrade that adds several new features to make the database more suitable for critical applications at large enterprises.”
Exadel, a leading provider of Web 2.0-based Enterprise solutions and professional services, today announced dVisionTM, the company’s RIA for on-demand access to enterprise data stored across multiple data sources, has been certified for MySQL Enterprise 5.0. The new enhanced support provides full integration between dVision and MySQL Enterprise.
MySQL’s Zack Urlocker has posted some thoughts about Sun’s acquisition of MySQL:
I’ve been through several acquisitions over the years, both on the acquiring and the acquired side, and so far, this one has gone the smoothest….Over the coming weeks, we’ll no doubt be looking for ways we can further integrate with some of Sun’s key technologies and products to accelerate our roadmap and improve our scalability. We’ll have more news in this area at the upcoming MySQL Conference & Expo, April 14-17 in Santa Clara.
Program chair Jay Pipes and the team over at MySQL AB have been hard at work lining up a particularly interesting group of folks to present keynotes at this year’s conference.
Read the full press release; an excerpt is below:
MySQL AB CEO Marten Mickos and Jonathan Schwartz, president and CEO of Sun Microsystems, will kick off the conference with keynotes highlighting the strategic, technical and community synergies between the two companies and their pending merger. Additional conference keynotes include: Jacek Becla, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, “The Science and Fiction of Petascale Analytics”; Rick Falkvinge, Swedish Pirate Party, “Copyright Regime vs. Civil Liberties”; Dick Hardt, Sxip, “Who is the Dick on My Site?” Other keynote presenters on the agenda include Raj Cherabuddi of Silicon Query and Chander Kant from Zmanda.
Kind words from Continuent, one of our valued supporters of the MySQL Conference & Expo–they sent out this press release this morning:
“We have been a sponsor of every MySQL Conference, since the very first annual MySQL Users Conference in San Jose in 2003,” said Eero Teerikorpi, CEO at Continuent. “We are excited to be part of the MySQL Conference & Expo once again in 2008. Our participation is of significance in projecting our plans for the global MySQL ecosystem as well as highlighting our innovative solutions and support programs.”
Program chair Jay Pipes and his committee have put together an excellent program for the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo, which is coming up April 14-17 in Santa Clara, California. In addition to Marten Mickos’ essential MySQL update, like last year, there will be some pretty outside-of-the-box keynote presentations, including:
- Rick Falkvinge, Swedish Pirate Party, on “Copyright Regime vs. Civil Liberties.”
Rick will talk about the rise and success of pirates and why pirates are necessary in today’s politics. He’ll also outline the next steps in the pirates’ strategy to change global copyright laws.
- Jacek Becla, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, on “The Science and Fiction of Petascale Analytics.” Scientists are trying to understand dark matter, discover distant galaxies, hunt for the Higgs boson, detect asteroids and take movies of molecules. Their science is fascinating, their data sizes are enormous, and their analysis requirements may seem like science fiction. Are we ready?
The early registration discount ends February 26, so sign up soon to take advantage of those savings.
It’s now time to register for MySQL Conference & Expo 2008, here is the full press release:
Program Unveiled for MySQL Conference & Expo 2008
We’re coming up on the deadline to submit proposals for the MySQL Conference & Expo for 2008. If you want to be included, get your proposal in by October 30 . We’ve also shifted the dates a bit, so make a note of the dates: May 14-17, 2008. Everything else stays the same. Visit this link to submit your ideas:
Submit a Proposal
This is the first piece of news concerning the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo. Let the submissions begin!
Call for participation is now open
Stephen Shankland writes: MySQL, purveyor of the open-source database of the same name, is on the road to becoming a publicly traded company, bolstered by $50 million in revenue in 2006.
“It’s still in the pipeline,” Chief Executive Marten Mickos said of the plan to hold an initial public offering of his company’s stock. He declined to discuss when the company planned to go public, but said, “We’re making good progress, doing all the things we need to get done.”
During the days of dot-com mania, companies would go public without being profitable and in some cases without much in the way of revenue, and with investor enthusiasm bubbling at the time, many of them raised millions of dollars during their IPOs. MySQL, though, is working on building its business first.
The company garnered about $50 million in revenue in 2006, Mickos said in an interview at the MySQL Conference and Expo here. That compares with $6.5 million in 2002 and about $34 million in 2005, according to earlier figures Mickos cited in a speech two years earlier.
Read the complete article on CNet News.
It may be an ideal solution for Web companies with multimedia files
Eric Lai writes: An independent developer has created a free plug-in for the open-source MySQL database that lets users inexpensively store their data on Amazon.com Inc.’s Web storage service, S3.
Mark Atwood, a Seattle-based developer, said his plug-in would be ideal for Web-centric companies that need cheap, reliable storage — Amazon Web Services charges 10 cents per gigabyte per month — over fast performance. For instance, companies operating Web sites that store “huge quantities of images that are only accessed occasionally” might find the technology ideal, Atwood said.
Atwood presented the still-in-development plug-in, which has been eagerly anticipated online, at the MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, Calif., yesterday.
Read the full article on Computerworld.com.
Stephen O’Grady writes: In an event short on bottled water but long on reliable wireless, MySQL proved much to this first time User Conference attendee. Not that I came in as a disbeliever, of course: even before they (smartly ;) became RedMonk clients, MySQL impressed me as a project that possessed that rare awareness not only of where it was but where it could get to. The past three days have nothing but reinforce that assessment; it’s tough to disbelieve, after all, when all you hear from its developers, partners, hell, even competitors, is that the product is, to borrow Dan Patrick’s words, en fuego.
Find out the five things that Stephen learned on RedMonk.com.
MySQL Cluster Carrier-Grade Edition Scales to 100,000 Transactions per Minute in DBT2 Benchmark
2007 MySQL Conference & Expo, Santa Clara, Calif. — April 26, 2007 — MySQL AB, developer of the world’s most popular open source database, today announced the results of recent DBT2 benchmarks of its MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition database. The announcement was made this morning at the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo. Tests were conducted in collaboration with Intel Corporation and Dolphin Interconnect Solutions.
The benchmark results show the very high scalability of MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition, attaining a rate of 100,000 transactions per minute (TpM) using an 8-node cluster. In this benchmark, the latest generation of the Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor family provided a significant step forward in scalability, showing a 75-percent speed improvement over tests run on previous generation Intel Xeon processor systems.
Read the full announcement on MySQL.com.
Deal will make DB2 a certified storage engine for MySQL apps on System i servers
Eric Lai writes: MySQL AB and IBM announced Wednesday that users of the latter’s System i hardware line will be able to run the MySQL open-source database on the midrange servers.
The System i version of IBM’s DB2 database, which is integrated with the midrange line’s operating system as a standard feature, will serve as a certified storage engine for MySQL, the two companies said at MySQL’s annual user conference here.
MySQL claims that its namesake database is being used in 11 million active installations worldwide. The software is based on a modular architecture that lets users swap in different storage engines tuned for different application scenarios.
Read the full report on Computerworld.com.
Tim O’Reilly shares the comments he heard while mingling with the attendees at the MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara yesterday. While admitting that the O’Reilly team co-produces the show and that he is also on the MySQL board, Tim can’t help but say that this event, ” is a darn impressive conference. The depth and breadth of the sessions truly is remarkable.”
Read Tim’s full post on O’Reilly Radar.
John Koenig writes: At the recent OSBC conference in San Francisco, Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, delivered a thoughtful presentation on the popular topic of software stacks. Mickos used the Swedish word “Lagom,” meaning somewhere in the middle, to define a “well-tempered stack” that can deliver a number of benefits.
Read Koenig’s report on the presentation along with an interview of Marten Mickos on Itmanagersjournal.com.
Solid Information Technology, the leading provider of fast, always-on and affordable databases used in more than 3,000,000 mission-critical deployments worldwide, and Proven Scaling, a consulting firm specializing in MySQL technology, today announced the launch of DorsalSource.org (http://dorsalsource.org), a community-focused website whose goal is to provide builds of MySQL Server, solidDB for MySQL, and other MySQL-related products. The site will be showcased this week at the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo in Solid’s booth #401.
Read the full announcement on WebKnowHow.net.
Eric Lai reports: Digg.com credits two particular features of its LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) server cluster for helping the news aggregation site maintain speedy performance in the face of high growth.
The site, which lets its users vote on, or “digg,” their favorite news stories hosted on other sites, recently passed the 1.2 million-user mark according to Elliot White III, an engineer at San Francisco-based Digg Inc. He spoke at MySQL’s annual conference in Santa Clara, Calif. on Tuesday.
Today, Digg.com boasts 100 servers scattered in multiple data centers that host a total of 30GB of data, but the site started off in late 2004 as a single Linux server running Apache 1.3, PHP 4, and MySQL 4.0 using the default MyISAM storage engine, White said.
As more users dug Digg, the site moved to an architecture that uses a load balancer in the front that sends queries to PHP servers, MySQL slave servers that feed the PHP servers, and a MySQL master server that feeds data to the slaves.
That’s a fairly standard setup. But to get away from “sending raw queries against the database,” White said Digg.com uses a software called Memcached.
Read the complete report on Computerworld.com.
Official questions database giant’s motives, saying it merely wants to contain open source and push its own OS
Paul Krill writes: Oracle’s venture into the Linux market was called “a bit disingenuous” by a Red Hat executive speaking at the MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, Calif. on Tuesday.
The executive, Michael Evans, Red Hat vice president of corporate development, speculated that Oracle wants to contain open source.
In the midst of his presentation on the One Laptop Per Child initiative, Evans noted mainstream adoption of open source with companies like Oracle participating in the Linux space. Oracle, however, is “a bit disingenuous in their intentions, if you ask me,” Evans said.
Read the full report on InfoWorld.com.
MySQL AB and IBM today announced a joint technology and reseller agreement to bring support for the MySQL open source database to the IBM System i business computing platform.
The two companies will work together to offer the MySQL Server for i5/OS, the flagship operating system for System i, and plan to deliver DB2 for i5/OS as a certified MySQL storage engine on the System i platform. This will allow System i customers to implement online and transactional MySQL applications while storing all data in a single, easy-to-manage DB2 database.
In addition, MySQL Enterprise subscriptions — a comprehensive offering of MySQL database software, services and support — will be made available to IBM clients worldwide through IBM’s reseller network and System i sales team. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Read the full announcement on MySQL.com.
Microsoft Corp.’s announcement last week that it will sell a $3 software bundle to students in developing countries is a positive move that won’t hurt the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) effort, said a member of the nonprofit group’s board on Tuesday.
“For the good of the world, it’s a positive thing,” said Michael Evans, vice president of corporate and business development at Linux provider Red Hat Inc. and a director of Cambridge, Mass.-based OLPC, which is building what is widely known as the ‘$100 laptop.’
Computerworld’s Eric Lai took the opportunity to interview Michael Evans yesterday at the MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara.
Read Lai’s insightful report and analysis on Computerworld.com.
Unisys Corporation has worked with news and information leader Reuters to help upgrade the underlying platform for Reuters.com and transform its global news websites to provide next-generation capabilities and news delivery.
The enhanced Web sites have yielded major improvements in performance by reducing U.S. page load times by 75 percent and allowing advertisers on Reuters.com and Reuters mobile sites to more effectively and creatively target their messages to the growing audience of Reuters global network of news and information sites.
Solution Initiative to Be Featured at MySQL Conference April 24
Unisys and Reuters architects will present a case study on the Reuters implementation today, April 24, at the MySQL Conference. The presentation will be at 5:30 p.m. PDT in Ballroom H of the Santa Clara Convention Center.
Read the full post on CRM2day.com.
Popular Open-Source Database Integrated with Leading PHP and Windows Development Tools
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CodeGear, a leader in developer tools, today announced it has partnered with MySQL AB to provide integrated solutions that will give developers more flexibility in quickly developing rich, database-driven Web applications.
Announced at the 2007 MySQL Conference in Santa Clara, CodeGear and MySQL AB said they have collaborated on integrating the MySQL open source database with CodeGear’s Delphi® Integrated Development Environment (IDE) product line, including the new Delphi for PHP and Delphi 2007 for Win32 products, as well as Delphi for .NET.
Read the
entire announcement on BusinessWire.com.
Solid will Preview solidDB for MySQL High Availability Option at 2007 MySQL Conference
CUPERTINO, Calif., (April 18, 2007) — Solid Information Technology, the leading provider of fast, always-on and affordable databases used in more than 3,000,000 mission-critical deployments worldwide, today announced that it will deliver advanced high availability functionality as a pre-packaged option for users of its open source database — solidDB for MySQL. For the first time, MySQL users can rely on a ready to install product and avoid the risk and complexity of custom-made solutions which require assembling several different components, and thus are costly to implement and maintain. Solid will demonstrate a prototype of the solidDB for MySQL high availability option at the annual 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo, April 23-27 in Santa Clara, Ca. in Booth #401.
Read the full announcement on Solidtech.com.
Infobright today announced the general availability of BrightHouse Version 2.3 with enhanced support for complex and ah-hoc queries across very large amounts of data.
Toronto, Canada (PRWEB) April 24, 2007 — Infobright today announced the general availability of BrightHouse Version 2.3 with enhanced support for complex and ah-hoc queries across very large amounts of data.
BrightHouse helps data warehouse managers meet increasing user demand for broad, unpredictable access to information for business analytics. BrightHouse can efficiently compress and store terabytes of data and make it immediately available for complex analysis. Infobright’s unique approach uses knowledge about the data to efficiently resolve queries minimizing the need to decompress or scan data. Self-managing and automatically indexed, BrightHouse requires very low administrator overhead and BrightHouse’s industry leading 10:1 data compression allows for very large amounts of data to be easily stored on low cost, commodity hardware.
BrightHouse ships with commercial technology from MySQL and is a member of MySQL’s recently announced MySQL Enterprise Connection Alliance (MECA) partner program. Bright-House marries terabyte scalability for analytics with the ease of use, reliability and manageability that has made MySQL the world’s most popular open source database.
Find the full announcement on eMediawire.com.
Open Source Database Vendor Recognizes YouTube, Amp’d Mobile, Adobe, HP, Red Hat, Carahsoft and Top Community Contributors with Annual MySQL Awards in the Opening Keynote of the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo
Santa Clara, Calif. — April 24, 2007 — MySQL AB’s CEO Marten Mickos kicked off the opening day of the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo this morning with a keynote exploring the phenomenal momentum of open source software as both a disruptive force on the traditional enterprise software industry and a positive communal movement among individual software developers.
“Open source is simply a smarter method to develop and distribute software — a way to promote software users’ freedoms in addition to protecting its creators’ rights,” Mickos noted. “By lowering the cost of entry for start-ups, and removing the obstacles to explosive growth, open source software is also having a wonderful impact on empowering users to build a new generation of more agile products, Web sites and companies. Perhaps the next Microsoft, Yahoo, Google or YouTube is sitting in this audience today.”
Throughout this week, more than 1,400 attendees and 66 exhibitors will participate in over 140 technical and IT business sessions at the annual MySQL event being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center. It is the world’s largest gathering of open source database experts.
Read the full announcement on MySQL.com.
Get the inside scoop on the Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions scheduled during the MySQL Conference & Expo, on Kaj Arno’s blog on planetmysql.com. Birds of a Feather sessions are the informal evening sessions where people sharing an interest meet face to face. You can still organise your own BoF. There are sixteen BoFs already.
For more information, visit: http://www.planetmysql.org/kaj/?p=106
ZRM for MySQL Now Supports the Demanding Data Backup Requirements of High Availability Applications
MySQL Conference & Expo, Santa Clara, Calif. - April 24, 2007 - Zmanda, the leader in open source backup and recovery software, today announced that its Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL - the only comprehensive, enterprise-class backup and recovery solution designed specifically for MySQL - now supports MySQL Cluster databases. ZRM for MySQL Cluster Edition is the first backup and recovery solution designed for the stringent demands of MySQL Cluster and MySQL Cluster Carrier-Grade Edition, a real-time, shared-nothing clustered database system that has been designed to meet the high availability, scalability and low latency requirements of telecom applications.
Read the full announcement on LinuxPR.com.
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Talend, the first provider of open source data integration software, today announced that Fabrice Bonan, chief operating officer, will lead a session at the MySQL Conference & Expo, an annual event that brings together more than 2,000 MySQL developers, users and database administrators.
Bonan’s presentation on Wednesday, April 25, titled “Leveraging Open Source for Operational Data Integration,” will address key issues surrounding the synchronization of data between MySQL and other operational systems. It will also outline the advantages of Talend’s open source data integration solution, Talend Open Studio, and the ways in which developers and enterprise information management teams can best leverage the open source alternative to traditional proprietary data integration suites.
For more information, read the press release on BusinessWire.com.
Continuent, Inc., the leading provider of commercial open source middleware solutions for database high-availability and scalability, and MySQL MECA partner, today announced the new version of its Continuent™ uni/cluster software, Continuent uni/cluster 2007 for MySQL Enterprise at the MySQL User Conference & Expo.
San Jose, Calif. (PRWEB) April 24, 2007 — Continuent, Inc., the leading provider of commercial open source middleware solutions for database high-availability and scalability, and MySQL MECA partner, today announced the new version of its Continuent™ uni/cluster software, Continuent uni/cluster 2007 for MySQL Enterprise at the MySQL User Conference & Expo.
Continuent uni/cluster 2007 is a suite of middleware software that delivers high-availability and scalability clustering for virtually any mission critical database application.
By joining the new MECA partner program, Continuent can receive easier access to MySQL sales, marketing and technical opportunities directly from the developers of the world’s most popular open source database. These benefits can help ISV partners like Continuent to better attract and support their current and new customers.
The newest release of Continuent uni/cluster for MySQL Enterprise sets the middleware gold standard for high-availability and scalability for MySQL users.
Read the full announcement on eMediawire.com.
The MySQL Enterprise Connection Alliance (MECA) Makes it Easier for Companies to Reach & Interact with Millions of Open Source Database Users
MySQL Conference & Expo 2007, Santa Clara, Calif. — April 24, 2007 — MySQL AB, developer of the world’s most popular open source database, today announced the launch of a new business partner program designed to make it easier for resellers, software vendors, hardware companies, and IT service providers to offer their database-related solutions to the millions of MySQL users worldwide.
This morning’s announcement was made on the opening day of the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo being held this week at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Over 1,400 attendees and 66 exhibitors are participating in the annual event — exploring and celebrating the phenomenal momentum of open source software such as MySQL.
The MySQL Enterprise Connection Alliance (MECA) is a multi-tiered partner program with compelling benefits for differing type and sized companies — from hardware and software vendors to resellers/distributors, training providers, hosting companies, systems integrators and consulting firms. MECA offers members special access and discounts to MySQL software subscriptions and support, joint marketing and sales opportunities, as well as assistance in assuring their commercial solutions work well with MySQL Enterprise and other MySQL database tools.
Read the full announcement on MySQL.com.
RippleTech Informant provides comprehensive database security for high-transaction environments such as ecommerce, telecom and financial services.
MySQL User Conference, Booth 412 - April 24, 2007 - RippleTech, the data access intelligence provider, today announced the availability of Informant for MySQL, the industry’s only dedicated network appliance to monitor MySQL database applications. Informant empowers MySQL users to protect against costly security breaches, demonstrate compliance and improve availability and reliability through detailed database traffic audit analysis that captures the entire user session without any negative impact on performance or service.
To read the full announcement and download detailed data on RippleTech Informant, visit RippleTech.com.
Alfresco Continues OEM Momentum with FileMark
LONDON–April 24th, 2007–Alfresco Software Inc., the first and leading provider of an open source enterprise content management solution (ECM), and FileMark, a leading provider of document processing, archiving and records management solutions, today announced the availability of the first open source ECM system with integrated COLD (Computer Output to Low-cost Disk) and image capture.
FileMark’s SMARTi Imaging and SMARTi COLD modules seamlessly integrate with Alfresco to create a production class ECM solution for mid-market and large scale organizations.
The result is a highly versatile, easy to use, open source ECM system, offering both mid-market and large scale enterprises significantly better value than can be found with proprietary solutions.
Read the full announcement on Alfresco.com.
SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BakBone Software® (Pink Sheets:BKBO), the leading provider of Linux data protection solutions, will demonstrate its business continuity solution for MySQL and present a technical session on protecting mission-critical MySQL data at the upcoming MySQL Conference & Expo. This event takes places April 23 to 27, 2007 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. BakBone’s NetVault®: Backup Application Plugin Module™ (APM) for MySQL is the first enterprise-class business continuity solution for MySQL.
Read the full release on BusinessWire.com.
HAMBURG, Germany, April 23 /PRNewswire/ — SNAP Innovation GmbH, makers of the PrimeBase XT (PBXT) storage engine for MySQL; has announced plans to lead the development of a scalable BLOB streaming architecture for MySQL, the popular open source database. The new technology will transform MySQL into a scalable media server capability of streaming pictures, films, MP3 files and other binary and
text objects (BLOBs) directly in and out of the database.
Official kick-off for the scalable BLOB streaming project is the MySQL Conference & Expo 2007, in Santa Clara, California, April 23. - 27. SNAP will be providing more details of the project during the conference week.
Read the full announcement on PR Newswire.
Network World lists Alfresco in 2007’s Top Ten Enterprise Software Companies
LONDON–April 23rd 2007–Alfresco Software, Inc., the first and leading provider of open source enterprise content management solutions, today announced that it has been named by Network World as one of the top ten enterprise software companies to watch this year.
Read the full announcement on Alfresco.com.
If you haven’t made plans for Santa Clara, you are advised to do so now: the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo is filling up!
What’s on tap for this year’s event? Four days packed with hundreds of sessions in a dozen tracks; a couple of thousands of fellow developers, DBAs, and other open source professionals; a great big Expo Hall (have you seen the exhibitor list lately?); several opportunities to get MySQL Certified; and events and networking galore.
As Tim O’Reilly wrote on the O’Reilly Radar, “Every web 2.0 company is ultimately a database company. Some roll their own, a few, a very few, use proprietary commercial databases. Most are running on MySQL.” So register now and scale to new heights with MySQL.
If you’ve been stumped trying to decide which of the hundreds of sessions to attend at the MySQL Conference next month, check out this super cool guide geared to the DBA written by Robin Schumacher, MySQL’s Director of Product Management. With his 13 years of database management experience, Robin provides excellent insight to help you to map out the perfect schedule that will give you the knowledge you need to take MySQL to new heights of performance.
You won’t want to miss his post on the MySQL AB site.
The platforms powering the Web today are the enterprise infrastructure of tomorrow. What we learn from those platforms is the enormous power of open source, open standards, and user involvement … and one more thing — that the future belongs to data. Every killer app on the Internet is a database application. And that makes MySQL the ‘Intel Inside’ of the next-generation of computer applications.
So writes Tim O’Reilly, in case you needed confirmation about the importance of MySQL in the tech ecosystem.
Need to learn more about how to maximize what MySQL can do for you and your business? Join us at the upcoming MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, happening April 23-26.
(Andy Oram has also posted a few thoughts about MySQL too.)
We’ve just opened registration for the 2007 edition of the MySQL Conference & Expo. Hundreds of sessions and tutorials to choose from, thousands of experts and fellow users to connect with, and thirty thousand square feet of exhibitors and DotOrgs to explore, all in an open and fun environment. We’re anticipating that this will be the largest MySQL gathering ever, and invite you to be a part of it.
Early registration pricing (a $200 savings) ends March 14, so get it while you can.
In his latest newsletter, Phil Windley reports that Tim’s Radar presentation at the 2006 MySQL Conference was the top download for December.
O’Reilly Media is changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, gives his popular O’Reilly Radar presentation at the 2006 MySQL Users Conference. The web has matured to a platform where users are partcipating and driving innovation. O’Reilly covers what the alpha geeks are up to, and how MySQL is leading the way in blurring the virtual and the physical world.
Writes Jason Lee Miller:
Due to demand, MySQL AB announced the expansion of its telecom-specific services and consulting for MySQL software. Specifically, the company is promoting its MySQL Cluster, a high-end version of the standard database designed for fault-tolerant, mission-critical network and telecommunications applications at carrier-grade.
He goes on to plug the Call for Participation for the conference: “The company is rounding out the last month of its Call for Participants for the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo, slated for April 2007. The call ends November 7.”
Hear ye, hear ye–the Call for Participation is now open for the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo. (You may, perhaps, have noticed a slight change in the name of the conference. While users will always be at the heart of the conference, the new title reflects how the scope of the event is growing!)
You have until November 7, 2006 to submit your proposal(s) to speak at the event, so don’t delay!
If you’re more interested in attending rather than speaking, look for registration to open in January. And if you want to keep up with the world of MySQL, check out program chair Jay Pipes’ blog.
“MySQL Pro,” co-written by MySQL Users Conference program chair Jay Pipes, got a fab review on Slashdot! Way to go, Jay!
chromatic expands on the notes he took from Scott Ambler’s MySQL Users Conference presentation on database agility, and he asks: “Is Your Database Agile Enough?”:
If the quality of your data is important, are you testing it?
If your business (or your understanding of your business) changed, could you change your database schemas quickly and easily?
The press release was picked up by NewsForge:
Anonymous Reader writes “MySQL Users Conference 2006, SANTA CLARA, Calif. - April 27, 2006 - 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.
The MySQL Gang
Longtime FOO (and always dapper) Julian Cash turned his joyful lens on speakers and other participants at the MySQL Users Conference for the Human Creativity Project.
“MySQL Forge allows members to share articles and tutorials through the site’s wiki, post and maintain projects in its directory, and offer sample code snippets in its repository,” notes this article.
MySQL AB on Thursday unveiled a community site for users and developers to discuss, collaborate on and share code and applications for the company’s namesake open-source database.
MySQL Forge gives members the opportunity to share articles and tutorials through the site’s wiki, to post and maintain projects in its directory, and to offer sample code snippets in its repository.
Writes Antone Gonsalves over at TechWeb News:
HP will provide consulting, integration and support services to subscribers of MySQL Network. HP on Tuesday said it plans to roll out next month consulting, integration and support services for customers implementing the MySQL open source database.
An article from the ECT news Staff:
Open source database developer MySQL has introduce MySQL Forge, a Web site and community directory designed to encourage 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.
“Both MySQL and Ubuntu benefit from extensive open source community development and usage,” said Ubuntu project founder Mark Shuttleworth in a keynote address Thursday at the MySQL Users Conference 2006.
Tim O’Reilly has just posted a few notes related to his keynote presentation from the MySQL Users Conference last Wednesday:
For my talk at the MySQL User Conference, Roger Magoulas, the director of O’Reilly’s research group, put together a few slides about the state of the database job market, with a focus on MySQL. The data comes from analysis of job postings from all of the online job sites, which we receive as part of a data sharing arrangement with SimplyHired. (Just as we do with the computer book market, we’ve built a data warehouse for technical job data and trends, which helps to put some “hard numbers” into the O’Reilly Radar.)
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.
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
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.
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.”
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.
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.
“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.”
“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.
Here’s the scoop on the opentaps announcement I mentioned earlier:
The opentaps open source ERP+CRM suite will be officially unveiled during MySQL Users Conference 2006 in Santa Clara, CA during April 24-27, 2006. This fully integrated suite can be deployed with open source databases like MySQL and offers a complete and scalable solution for managing customers, products, inventory, orders, manufacturing, warehouses, and accounting.
If you’re coming to the conference or if you’ll be in the Silicon Valley area next Tuesday or Wednesday, c’mon down the the exhibit hall and talk to the opentaps folks in person.
Congrats to our Users Conference cohorts over at MySQL–they took home the trophy at the Golden Penguin Bowl in Boston.
Just received a note from Si Chen, I’ll post a link to the official press release when it goes live:
Our project, opentaps.org, will be at the MySQL Users Conference 2006’s DotOrg Pavilion, and I will also be giving a presentation on April 25, 2006. The opentaps project will unveil a complete open source ERP+CRM suite during the conference. This fully integrated suite can be deployed with open source databases like MySQL and offers a complete and scalable solution for managing customers, products, inventory, orders, manufacturing, warehouses, and accounting.
(Si says the announcement hasn’t been posted anywhere else yet–my first scoop, woo!)
The latese issue contains an article surveying open source in business and uses MySQL as an example. CEO Marten Mickos, who will be keynoting at the MySQL Users Conference next month, is quoted.
Greg Gianforte, CEO and founder of RightNow Technologies, has just been confirmed as a keynote speaker. He’ll deliver a presentation on Bootstrapping: Starting an Open Source Business With Almost No Money!
