Monday Aug 25, 2008
FrOSCon 2008 was a real success (http://www.froscon.org).
We have had lots of visitors at the PostgreSQL booth and also my
workshop was full. The same with Bernd's talk. For both my workshop and
Bernd's talk we got lots of positive feedback.
At the
PostgreSQL booth most visitors asked for migration from MySQL to
PostgreSQL. Also often we got questions about HA/Cluster/Replication.
Additionally there was a huge interest in Postgis.
Lots of visitor complained that tools like CMS tools just offer an interface to MySQL and not to PostgreSQL.
Additionally OpenOffice community asked for a native interface for OpenOffice to PostgreSQL. We will discuss this internally at Sun.
As
usual, lots of visitors just visited the booth to let us know how they
like PostgreSQL and how less problems they have with it.
Lots of visitors also asked me about the situation with PostgreSQL at Sun and when I told that Sun will offer PostgreSQL support รก la MySQL support in future they were very interested how to get it.
Thanks to the FrOSCon organisation who made this great event possible.
I think, when FrOSCon will grow further on, then I can see that it will be from international interest in 2010.
Thursday Aug 21, 2008
I am glad to announce FrOSCon 2008 (http://www.froscon.org).
This was always a great conference and I will hope that it will be great this year too.
I
will be responsible for the PostgreSQL booth. The booth will be in
front of AllBSD and next to MySQL. Honestly both MySQL and PostgreSQL are happy that the booths will be next to each other because both fear a
helper bottleneck. If there will be a bottleneck then we can help each
other.
If you want to join the FrOSCon and you want to help me with the PostgreSQL booth, please don't be too shy to let me know.
Besides the booth I will have a 3.5 hour workshop and Bernd Helmle from PostgreSQL community will have a talk about PostgreSQL troubleshooting.
Unfortunately, at
the last draft of the program my workshop and the talk will be
at the same time. I already talked to the FrOSCon organisation and they
were sorry for this mistake. They will look for a solution here.
Because I know how difficult this talk organisation is, I already
offered that we schedule my workshop for one more hour and I will make
a break that my students can listen the talk.
We will guarantee you, that you will get the possibility to take both Bernd's talk and my workshop.
The
workshop is scheduled in English. If there will be non German
understanding listeners then I will do it in English. If there will be
only Germans then of course I will do it in German. My slides will be
in English anyway. So, if you think about listening to my workshop but
you fear English just look into the room at the beginning. Maybe you
have luck and there will be only Gernans. If there will be only a
single non German understanding listener then I will switch to English
and do it in English.
Sun is sponsor from FrOSCon but that effects mainly MySQL and OpenSolaris. Anyway, they will sponsor my worktime.
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