As you may have seen from his blog, Baron Schwartz is joining our consulting company – Percona in less than a week. This is exciting news for us as Baron is renowned MySQL community member, blogger, co-author of High Performance MySQL second edition book, author of Maatkit and Innotop and just a great guy. Welcome [...]

Reading Martens interview we see the quite: “As soon as the deal closed we immediately secured a big deal with a major European national police agency,” said Mickos, now SVP database products at Sun. “Key to them choosing MySQL was that we are now part of a much larger public corporation. The deal wouldn’t have [...]