Percona and Monty Programming AB announced formation of Open Database Alliance. Read on press release for details.
May 19, 2013
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Percona and Monty Programming AB announced formation of Open Database Alliance. Read on press release for details.
Peter managed the High Performance Group within MySQL until 2006, when he founded Percona. Peter has a Master's Degree in Computer Science and is an expert in database kernels, computer hardware, and application scaling.
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Great news!
I wish you and Monty the very best with this project.
I think it can only be good for open source databases.
I will be putting my name down to volunteer any help I can.