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The NetBeans team released a new NB + MySQL + GF bundle (download) a couple of weeks ago but I didn't time to write about it. The bundle includes:
• NetBeans 6.1
See reviews and comments from James - a frequent NetBeans blogger - and Colin - a frequent MySQL blogger - |
I went by the MySQL Users Conference on Tuesday and it looked good, plenty of energy and attendance. Check PlanetMySQL for reports, the bloggers are doing a good reporting job; SlashDot is not, though - see below. A quick pass through highlights:
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The Sky is Falling.
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Earlier this week we Announced the availability of our fist MySQL and GlassFish bundle (Download Page). This bundle requires some post-install steps, which are described by Sathyan and in the official docs which shows how to Install, Start and Stop the MySQL Server. We hope to start showing examples of how to use the bundle; in a first post, Sreeni reports how run Java EE 5 Samples. |
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The Google Summer of Code 2008 just started. Check out the Program Site and its FAQ. GlassFish did not apply to the program this year, but I'm happy to see that MySQL did and got accepted. Kaj provides an Introduction to the program, with a pointer to the Project Ideas and Giuseppe has a Call for Mentors. Also check out the ideas for MySQL Proxy (Giuseppe) and those for PHP (Jay). |
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While MySQL 5.1 is almost ready, MySQL 6.0 is already in alpha with many new features, including a Beta of Falcon. Falcon (Intro, White Paper) is designed for typical Web 2.0 workloads in modern (i.e. many cores, large memory) machines. Check out the MySQL 6.0 home page and the ChangeLog and Download and Contribution pages. Thanks to Hakan for this tip. |
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One of the nice, and funny things about working on the MySQL deal is that we took turns saying: "I like how you solved this problem, tell me more!" The deal closed; learning time starts... Jay Pipes is Mr MySQL Forge and he just released Forge 2, check out his announcement and Guiseppe's additional commentary ([1], [2]). Maybe we can invite Jay (et al.) for a presentation at a future GlassFish meeting? |
BTW, I see that Jay's experience with MediaWiki was similar to that of one of our teams: very hard to mold it for new tasks.
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Monty has started blogging and has announced the Early Release of the sources and Specs for Maria (aka MyISAM++). Also check out comments from Guiseppe (the Data Charmer) and from the Performance blog. Maria and Falcon are the two newest Storage Engines in MySQL. Falcon is already in Feature Preview; also see Robin's Overview: Part 1 and Part 2. |
If and when the MySQL Acquisition closes we will start tracking MySQL activites more closely here. A very good place for MySQL information is PlanetMySQL.ORG.
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MC is Kaj (MySQL); from left to right: Rich (Sun), Mårten (M), Monty (M), David (M), Rick (S), Dave (S), Clint (M) and Ian (S). It reminds me of a younger Sun. MySQL was founded in '95 and Sun in '82. I joined Sun in '90; we used to do things like this then and maybe we will again! :-) Larger image at YouTube; song lyrics below; translation at Kaj's blog |
Helan går sjung hopp faderallan lallan lej. Helan går, sjung hoppfaderallan lej. Och den som inte helan tar, han ej heller halvan får. Helan går, sjung hopp faderallan lej.
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I'll make this my last comment on the MySQL Deal until I can write about concrete steps. Most of the reports are very positive, including this one from The Register: Meet the world's premier open source vendor - Sun. The most negative one is from John Dvorak: The Sun-MySQL deal stinks. I don't follow John D but I know he has a wide readership, so it is disappointing that he is so off the mark. And it is not just on this deal; how can he ignore, for example, the value of Kaelia, Alfara and WaveSet? At least the comments to his post are overwhelmingly positive of the deal. Anyhow, moving on... |
PS - I borrowed the image at left from Mårten's presentation at Orlando. Hope you like it as much as I did...
Added: Redmonk has a very Comprehensive Analysis; check it out.
The reaction to Sun's Intended Acquisition of MySQL ( Jonathan's blog, Video) is very positive at the end of this first day. Some of the references are:
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NetworkWorld
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I'll confess I'm slightly (but very pleasantly) surprised at the percentage of positive reactions this soon after the announcement. Also at the number of places where GlassFish is mentioned and how often the deal is compared favorably to Oracle's Acquisition of BEA.
On a personal note, I'm typing this from Orlando where MySQL has an all-employee meeting. Several of us flew here Tuesday evening for today's announcement and to talk with people. We had already met several individuals while preparing for the deal but this is a great opportunity to meet many more folks.
I'm enjoying the visit a lot; the cultures of the two companies are very compatible and yet we can learn a lot from each other. One area that MySQL does better is dealing with "isolated" employees; MySQL is geographically very distributed and there is not much a sense of "HQ" vs "non-HQ" - everybody is in a more equal footing than at Sun. I think the deal is going to work very well at many levels.
PS. At left is Sakila, the mascot of MySQL. She is a dolphin, not a fish :-)
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Breaking News! MySQL (the M in LAMP) is extremely popular in new "Web 2.0" applications. For example MySQL is #4 at Ohloh.net behind Firefox, Subversion and Apache, and ahead of PHP. Adoption is strong even in the enterprise: 6 out of our 13 Adoption Stories use MySQL. |
We are all extremely excited about the possibilities; both for developers and for deployers. We will keep you posted of developments as they happen. Fun times ahead!
