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InfoWorld: Mono in Focus  Mono, which is an open source implementation of the Microsoft .Net Framework, was in focus at the MySQL Users Conference 2005 on Thursday.  [InfoWorld]

ONLamp.com: Bosworth's Web of Data  Google's Adam Bosworth's keynote at the 2005 MySQL Users Conference was a call to audience members to "do for information what HTTP did for user interface." The web was successful because it offered a simple, sloppy, standards-based, scalable platform, and the challenge is to take a database and do the same. Daniel Steinberg covered Bosworth's talk, and provides this report.   [ONLamp.com]

eWeek: Red Hat, MySQL to Partner on Clustering  There's a Swedish word, "lagom." It means not too little, not too much, and it's what MySQL AB CEO Marten Mickos wants database users to think about when scaling out, he said in his keynote address here Wednesday during the MySQL Users Conference.  [eWeek]

ZDNet: Balance lucre with liberty, open-sourcers told  MySQL chief Marten Mickos has called for a balance between freedom and profit in open-source projects, becoming the latest top executive to offer his two cents on making money off software offered for free.  [ZDNet]

ONLamp.com: The State of the Dolphin at the MySQL Users Conference 2005  Daniel Steinberg covers David Axmark's and Michael Widenius' "State of the Dolphin" keynote, in which, among details about binary releases and supported languages, they announced that MySQL 5.0 code is complete. Next, Daniel reports on Michael Tiemann's keynote, in which he offers his thoughts on defining and identifying the strengths of open source.   [ONLamp.com]

InfoWorld: Legal issues cloud but don't stop open source  Panelists at MySQL's user conference Wednesday discussed challenges in the enterprise pertaining to open source and, as could be expected, the familiar issue of legal issues surrounding software patents came up.  [InfoWorld]

InfoWorld: MySQL CEO touts open source as an alternative  With its open source database, MySQL represents the economy class of databases, which can be a sufficient alternative to more expensive products, according to Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL. Speaking at the MySQL 2005 Users Conference here on Wednesday, Mickos cited the preponderance of shrinking IT budgets and how users must make do with less than before.  [InfoWorld]

InfoWorld: MySQL marks 10 years; future IPO likely  MySQL celebrated its 10th anniversary this week, and a co-founder acknowledged that taking the company public is likely at some juncture.  [InfoWorld]

eWeek: MySQL Founders: Kill All the Patents  The patent wars are red-hot ... That's great, say the founders of the open-source MySQL database -- David Axmark and Michael "Monty" Widenius -- now take it a step further and kill all the software patents, and we'd be getting somewhere.   [eWeek]

InfoWorld: MySQL readies database clustering improvements  MySQL plans improvements in areas such as tables, replication, and partitioning with upcoming versions of the its database clustering product, a company consultant said at the MySQL Users Conference 2005 event here on Tuesday.  [InfoWorld]

eWeek: MySQL 5.0 Stars at Users Conference  Co-founders David Axmark and Michael Widenius reflect on the open-source database's speed and reliability, and discuss the new features in MySQL 5.0.   [eWeek]

Yahoo Finance: Friendster Named 'Application of the Year' at MySQL Users Conference  Friendster, the easiest way to keep in better touch with your friends, today announced that it was one of three companies awarded 'Application of the Year' by MySQL AB, developer of the popular open source database. The award, which was presented at the MySQL Users Conference, is designed to recognize the best corporate and community database applications using MySQL.  [Yahoo Finance]

CRN: Analytics, Reporting: The Next Open Source Frontier  Things were more copacetic at the start of this week's MySQL confab in Santa Clara. The much-hyped area of analytics and business intelligence may well be the new frontier for open source.   [CRN]

InfoWorld: MySQL Show on the Horizon  MySQL, one of the high-profile open source vendors, will hold its MySQL Users Conference 2005 event next week in Santa Clara, Calif. The agenda features sessions on MySQL clustering, the MySQL 5.0 database and the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/Python/PHP). Attendees also will hear about Mono, which is an open source development platform based on Microsoft .Net technology.   [InfoWorld]

New MaxDB 7.6 beta released  The new version 7.6 of MaxDB by MySQL has been released! This release is a beta version, preparing for the production version release, which will take place in Q2 2005.  [Latest Updates from MySQL AB]

MySQL Launches 'MySQL Network' for Corporate Enterprises Looking to Fast-Track Open Source Database Deployment  All-in-One Offering Provides the Most Affordable & Reliable Way to Develop High-Performance Business-Critical Applications with MySQL  [Latest Updates from MySQL AB]

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Emic Networks Joins the MySQL Network Certified Partner Program  Emic Networks, the leading provider of application clustering solutions for open source, announced at the MySQL Users Conference that it has joined the MySQL Network Certified Partner program. Emic and MySQL AB will work in collaboration to help enterprise customers smooth the integration of MySQL into their existing IT environments.  [Emic Networks]

SugarCRM debuts Sugar Suite 3.0 beta  Now offering campaign management, email marketing, collaboration and forecasting tools. This release introduces vital workgroup management functionality. Sugar Suite 3.0 is built on the LAMP open source technology stack, making it the most customizable, and easy to deploy enterprise Customer Relationship Management application.   [SugarCRM]

Zend Technologies Joins MySQL Network Certified Partners Program  Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, and creator of products and services supporting the development, deployment and management of PHP-based applications, has joined the MySQL Network Certified Partners Program as a Certified Gold Member. Zend commits to test, certify and promote the company's PHP solutions for MySQL Network.  [Zend]

Acronis, Inc.  Acronis, Inc., the technological leader in storage management software, will demonstrate its newly updated Acronis True Image Enterprise Server 8.0 and Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Linux at the upcoming MySQL User Conference. This will mark the first public demonstration of the new features announced earlier this month.  [Acronis, Inc.]

HiT Software, Inc. partners with MySQL AB   HiT Software, Inc. partners with MySQL AB to significantly increase interoperability between MySQL and other database products and applications. HiT Software brings two new product lines to the MySQL user base: DBMoto, a data replication tool, and Allora, a combination of a GUI Mapper and engine to transform MySQL data to and from XML.   [HiT Software, Inc.]

OpenLogic  OpenLogic, the leading provider of software and services that enable development and IT organizations to easily create and manage their own integrated, commercial-grade Open Source environments, is showcasing its new solutions for accelerating MySQL-based development and deployment. OpenLogic's BlueGlue suite delivers integrated MySQL-based stacks in minutes and includes sample applications to accelerate MySQL-based development.   [OpenLogic]

Safe Software Inc.  Safe Software Inc. is pleased to announce support for the MySQL Database Server in its core Spatial ETL (extract, transform, and load) technology. This solution enables MySQL Database Server users to import and export both spatial and non-spatial data to and from over 130 formats and systems.  [Safe Software Inc.]

Tableau Announces MySQL edition  Tableau Software, a developer of visual analysis and reporting systems will release a MySQL edition. Tableau enables people of any technical ability to see and understand the information in MySQL databases by using a unique drag and drop interface. O'Reilly's Roger Magoulas calls Tableau a "welcome tool in the arsenal of an analyst working on dimensional data.  [Tableau Software]

Webyog  Webyog, developers of SQLyog, the most popular GUI for MySQL, is introducing HTTP/SSH tunneling features that enable users to effectively manage MySQL, even if the MySQL port is blocked or remote access is disallowed. SQLyog lets users break free from the limitations of Web-based administration tools, significantly increasing productivity with MySQL.  [Webyog]

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Weblogs

Andy Oram: MySQL conference wraps up with a vision  Adam Bosworth's vision is for a protocol that provides raw access to data. And if the user gets a few hundred results and has to scroll through them a little bit, that's fine.   [O'Reilly Weblogs]

Ogadei: Reports from the MySQL Users Conference 2005  A number of reports have been posted from the MySQL Users Conference 2005, with a lot of details about MySQL 5.0 and the forthcoming MySQL 5.1, new database clustering features, and more.  [Ogadei]

Mike Kruckenberg: Tim O'Reilly's Closing Thoughts at MySQL 2005  A few thoughts from Tim O'Reilly's closing remarks at MySQL 2005.  [One Other Thought]

Mike Kruckenberg: MySQL Conference Wrap Up  Waiting in the lobby for the doors to open in the ballroom to hear Tim O'Reilly give some remarks as MySQL 2005 comes to a close. It is amazing that a single piece of software can pull together 1300 people for an entire week, with as many as 7 simultaneous sessions at any one time.  [One Other Thought]

Mike Hillyer: Upgrading MySQL Versions  Russell Dyer does writing for UnixReview and a few other publications. Just finished MySQL in a Nutshell for O’Reilly.  [Mike Hillyer's Personal Web Space]

Mike Hillyer: Miguel de Icaza Keynote  Miguel has started with a demonstration of Mono, showing a sample application on both Linux and Windows.   [Mike Hillyer's Personal Web Space]

Fonz.net: SugarCRM 3 is Up  The folks over at SugarCRM released their first beta of Sugar 3.0. Check it out. It adds e-mail campaigns, a new soap interface and forecasting. They also have it running here at the MySQL Users Conferene so if you have a minute drop by their booth.   [fonz.net]

Mike Kruckenberg: Using and Extending Full Text in MySQL  Listening to Joe Stump talk about MySQL's full text indexing at MySQL 2005. Joe is at eNotes.com.  [One Other Thought]

Mike Hillyer: Migration Session Online  I have published a flash version of my session on Migrating MSSQL and Access databases to MySQL. You can view my session at http://www.openwin.org/mike/presentations/uc2005/MSSQL-MySQL.html.  [Mike Hillyer's Personal Web Space]

chromatic: Discipline, Simplicity, and Feedback in System Administration  Andrew Cowie expanded his theory of dealing with complexity in operations in a talk yesterday. Here are a few of his ideas that stuck in my head.  [O'Reilly Weblogs]

Mike Kruckenberg: MySQL Cluster Architecture  Listinging to Max Mether present on the architecture of MySQL cluster.   [One Other Thought]

Fonz.net: MySQL Security by John David Duncan  John offers a broad overview of MySQL security. He does not cover everything, but provides a good intro for someone new to MySQL. Here are some notes from his talk.   [fonz.net]

Mike Hillyer: Advanced Migrations with MySQL Migration Toolkit  MySQL Migration Toolkit is being presented by Mike Zinner, key developer for the GUI team. Mike started by talking about the extensibility of the tool, how new database support and migration methods can be added thanks to the extendable Java runtime they used to build the tool.  [Mike Hillyer's Personal Web Space]

Open Sesame: MySQL has a giant ecology  This really speaks to what I wrote about on the SpikeSource Blog yesterday. The building of ecologies. I had no idea that the ecology around MySQL was so big...   [Open Sesame]

Mike Hillyer: Using MySQL 4.1 and 5.0 with Connector/NET  MySQL Connector/NET uses the native MySQL binary protocol for communications. Prepared statements can produce a 20-30% improvement in performance.   [Mike Hillyer's Personal Web Space]

Mike Kruckenberg: MySQL Cluster New Features and Roadmap  Listening to John David Duncan present on MySQL cluster at MySQL 2005. Cluster was announced at last year's user conference, released with version 4.1.3.   [One Other Thought]

Mike Kruckenberg: Ticketmaster's MySQL Implementation  Listening to Ed Presz talk about Ticketmaster's use of MySQL. Ticketmaster has 9000 clients, 500 arenas, 500 amphitheaters, 150 sports teams, etc. Have sold as many as 500,000 tickets in a single day. This year's U2 tour was crazy. 11,000 tickets per minute, 135,000 tickets/hour for U2 tour.  [One Other Thought]

Mike Kruckenberg: MySQL GUI Tools  Michael Zinner is presenting about GUI tools. He's the lead developer on the MySQL GUI Team. Was developing DBDesigner4 as an open source project two years ago and got swept up by MySQL AB. They are up to eight different tools now (both currently available and those in development/planning).  [One Other Thought]

Jim Winstead: at the conference  i'm on the hook for being the "session buddy" for lots of talks today, which means i should be trying to make sure speakers don't go too long. (which i didn't do a great job of doing this morning, but i'll be better this afternoon!)  [trainedmonkey]

Mike Kruckenberg: Using MySQL for 600+ Machine Kiosk Network at Suzuki  Listening to Margo Zenk from Matrix Consulting talk about how they built a system to keep 600 machines in Suzuki dealership kiosks in sync. Matrix Consultants was chosen to build the tools because they were good with open source tools.  [One Other Thought]

Brad Fitzpatrick at the MySQL Users Conference  If you're attending the MySQL Users Conference in Santa Clara this week, you'll want to check out the presentation that our own Brad Fitzpatrick is giving tomorrow.   [Six Apart]

Jeremy Zawodny: At MySQL User Conference Today  As previously noted, I'll be at the MySQL User Conference in Santa Clara today.   [Jeremy Zawodny's blog]

Mike Kruckenberg: Michael Tiemann: Defining Open Source  Second keynote of the morning is Michael Tiemann from Red Hat. Mike was at the helm of Cygnus before it was bought by Red Hat and is also the president of the Open Source Initiative.  [One Other Thought]

Andy Oram: Graying MySQL, and MySQL learns a second language (early conference report )  MySQL, in short, is becoming conventional.   [O'Reilly Weblogs]

Opening Keynote: State of the Dolphin  MySQL Founders David Axmark and Monty Widenius. MySQL is now 10 years old, first code written in 1995...   [Mike Hillyer's Weblog]

chromatic: Trees in MySQL 5.0  On the first day of the MySQL Users Conference, I attended Jan Kneschke's session on new features in MySQL 5.0. As an aside, he demonstrated a nice technique for retrieving all children of a branch in a tree in a single SQL statement.   [O'Reilly Weblogs]

State of the Dolphin at MySQL 2005  I am sitting in Tuesday morning's keynote, The State of the Dolphin at MySQL 2005 with David Axmark and Monty Widenius.  [One Other Thought]

Derek Balling: Data Warehousing With MySQL  I learned far more about data warehousing than I actually had anticipated was possible. I also realized why my entire existing implementation had been so problematic for me, and what I needed to do to correct it.   [O'Reilly Weblogs]

Mike Kruckenberg: Mastering Changes and Upgrades to Mission Critical Systems  Afternoon tutorial of the first day at MySQL User's Conference is Andrew Cowie talking about Mastering Changes and Upgrades to Mission Critical Systems. Andrew is a pretty engaging speaker.   [One Other Thought]

Flock Together  Dan Price will be leading an OpenSolaris BoF at this week's MySQL conference. It starts at 9:30 pm on Wednesday in the Magnolia Room. I know, late start time, but well worth it. These things have been very popular in the past and run late, but you get a lot of questions answered.  [The Alethiometer]

Mike Kruckenberg: MySQL 5.0 In Depth - Stored Procedures, Views, Triggers and Cursors  The first session of the MySQL User's Conference (for me) is a tutorial on MySQL 5.0 features by Jan Kneschke, a MySQL trainer from Germany. Jan is going to be working on a new super-secret project called Merlin, being announced tomorrow.  [One Other Thought]

Data Warehousing at MySQLCon: A tutorial and a session you shouldn't miss  It looks like I will not get to the MySQL Users Conference, and that's a drag--the schedule looks great. However, I've seen earlier versions of two of the scheduled items, and they are winners.   [O'Reilly Weblogs]

Calm Before the Storm  Sunday is mainly filled with people checking in, registering for the conference, and networking. For me Sunday means catching up with coworkers and doing final preparation for tomorrow's three hour tutorial.   [Mike Hillyer's Weblog]

Jeremy Zawodny: Don't Forget the MySQL Users Conference  The 2005 MySQL Users Conference isn't far off. It runs from April 18th - 21st at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The session list is impressive. MySQL and O'Reilly have put together a great program.   [Jeremy Zawodny's blog]

MySQL User Conference  I will be attending the MySQL Users Conference in Santa Clara in April. Let me know if you plan to attend, so I can rent you the 2nd bed in my hotel room.  [Debris.com]

Sessions I Plan to Attend at the MySQL User Conference  I've been perusing the schedule grid for the 2005 MySQL User Conference, and these are some of the sessions I plan to attend...  [Mike Hillyer's Personal Web Space]

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