By now, word has gotten around that MySQL has made some more changes to their process around MySQL Community Server. The changes primarily focus on:
acceptance of community contributions (5.0 and 5.1 are now locked for contributions, so any contributions won’t be available until 5.2 or later)
release schedule of community server (”Mature GA”, meaning 5.0, [...]
Spammers continue to find new ways to do their business and new ways to cause frustration for those of us who administer software that fosters small, open communities. These communities are fragile and grow up in a delicate environment. The environment needs to remain open: self-registration, the ability to post content, and the option of [...]
A few of us from Solid are up in Portland at OSCON. We’ll be showing off a new prototype of our high availability (HA) option for solidDB for MySQL. The HA option allows solidDB for MySQL to act in a hot-standby configuration where there is a primary and secondary server. The data in [...]
A few weeks ago I had dinner with Doug Engelbart and Shinya Yamada and Doug mentioned to me that he was interested in blogging. We agreed that I would set up him up with some blog software and then he could give it a try and see how he liked it. After Shinya created the [...]
As open source has become more mainstream, people have become more comfortable with the idea that open source is a viable and, in many cases, preferable choice when choosing which software to use. Companies such as Google agree that open source is a good platform to use for their mission-critical servers. Gartner is predicting a [...]
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I was at the Open Source SIG meeting last night. After the meeting, I had the opportunity to speak with Chris Maresca, co-founder of Olliance Group, a company that specializes in consulting services for open source strategy. We were discussing open source in the enterprise, and I asked him his opinion about the [...]