O'Reilly Conferences: MySQL Conference & Expo

Community Powered MySQL CE: Why I

Suzanne Axtell — 2009-01-21T18:08:59-08:00

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.

News Release: MySQL Conference & Expo Speakers Announced and Registration Now Open

Jackie Hadley, Communications Associate — 2009-01-13T10:21:56-08:00

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.

News Release: MySQL Conference & Expo Opens Call for Participation

Jackie Hadley, Communications Associate — 2008-09-05T16:25:22-08:00

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.

MySQL Forge: Notes and Media from the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo

Suzanne Axtell — 2008-05-26T14:02:58-08:00

Sheeri K. Cabral has posted extensive photoes, video, slides, and notes from last April’s conference.

Mercury News Interview: Fitting MySQL Into Sun's Orbit

Avila Reese - PR Contributor — 2008-04-21T14:34:59-08:00

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.

PC World: MySQL Users Mostly Unfazed by Sun Acquisition

Avila Reese - PR Contributor — 2008-04-21T14:21:38-08:00

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.

News Release: Zmanda Presents "Radically Simple" MySQL Backup and Recovery at MySQL Conference & Expo 2008

Avila Reese - PR Contributor — 2008-04-21T14:04:46-08:00

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.

Channel Web: Sun Moves To Expand Its MySQL Universe

Avila Reese - PR Contributor — 2008-04-21T13:25:03-08:00

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.

ZDNet: Sun Debuts MySQL 5.1 With No Licensing Change

Avila Reese - PR Contributor — 2008-04-21T13:06:08-08:00

Paula Rooney discusses the “near final” release of MySQL 5.1, which Sun Microsystem will debut later this quarter.

News Release: MindTouch Reports Outstanding Growth, Increased Momentum in the Social Enterprise Marketplace

Suzanne Axtell — 2008-04-21T12:51:36-08:00

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.

News Release: New Database Appliance from Kickfire Propels Sun Microsystems’ MySQL to Number One in Data Warehousing Price-Performance

Avila Reese - PR Contributor — 2008-04-21T12:51:01-08:00

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.

ZDNet UK: Sun Delivers its First MySQL Update

Suzanne Axtell — 2008-04-21T12:48:07-08:00

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.

Infoworld: MySQL Conference kicks off

Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist — 2008-04-16T11:25:32-08:00

Zack Urlocker gives a good overview of the conference.

CNet: MySQL chief to users: Don't expect big disruptions post-Sun

Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist — 2008-04-16T10:55:43-08:00

Charles Cooper reports on his conversation with Marten Mickos.

News Release: Sun Introduces MySQL Workbench

Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist — 2008-04-16T09:59:02-08:00

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.