… crowd and this is why I think the conference never left California again afterward. Partnership with SAP was hot at this… the purchase of Sun during the conference. Both Monty and Marten are no longer with the company (having left in February), and… Padir, the new manager responsible for MySQL business at Sun. A lot of Sun hardware and Solaris focused talks this year. It…
Post: New SpecJAppServer results at MySQL and Sun.
November 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment
… used for the test. So it is not just about Sun it is about OpenSource hardware on Commodity Hardware. As usually… same hardware just running PostgreSQL instead of MySQL or having Sun box replaced with comparable Dell or HP box. Unfortunately such… overhead because there were no slow queries it just was left in tact. Other important settings: transaction-isolation = READ-COMMITTED – this…
Post: MySQL Community Dinner
April 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment
… Jeremy on the party yesterday. To my surprise Jonathan Schwartz (Sun CEO) and Rich Green (VP of Software – boss of Marten… this applies to “cheap” hardware or “server grade” hardware class. Sun Executives also of course got fair amount of attention. It… inside of Sun. I do not think this makes much sense but lets see how it works out. I personally left earlier…
Post: How many people will leave MySQL now ?
March 21, 2008 By 7 Comments
… the recent days we had few announcements of people leaving Sun/MySQL – few days ago I’ve seen announcement by Ronald… MySQL became too big couple of years ago so I left MySQL early. However it is not only the size what… able to stay relatively independent branch, though large companies like Sun will still enforce complicated legal, financial and informational procedures especially…
Post: MySQL Pays attention to Bugs (Finally!)
May 20, 2009 By 5 Comments
… see results of new engineering/refactoring/bug hunt efforts inside Sun/MySQL. Over last couple of weeks I started getting a… ago which were deferred to be fixed later or were left in open state. Here is example of such a bug…
Comment: Reading MySQL Enterprise future...
December 11, 2008 By 13 Comments
Peter, I guess this model is suitable for the customer base that Sun/MySQL want, but not for me so the only thing left for me to do is built my own Tools, with Blackjack and Hookers 
I don’t consider it expensive, it’s just not what I need and want.
Comment: Reading MySQL Enterprise future...
December 10, 2008 By 13 Comments
… anything got left out of Community, it would be prominently mentioned – maybe there’s some credit to be given MySQL/Sun on…
Comment: Tom Basil (formerly MySQL's Director of Support) Joins Percona
December 4, 2008 By 13 Comments
… leader.. and our virtual Santa! Other readers, be assured that Sun/MySQL Support kicks ass, Tom teached us! * we do respect… love our customers! I can’t imagine Tom saying he left for you guys because he missed that in our Team…
Post: Will Falcon fly?
June 22, 2008 By 11 Comments
…, I expected some comments about Falcon future development from MySQL / Sun side. Jim was not just ordinary developer, but lead of… this project will be ever finished, especially when main architect left it.
Post: SpyLOG Was sold the other day, time to look back
August 11, 2007 By 2 Comments
… same time. A lot of these projects never saw the sun light or were closed after beta testing (sometimes for political… functionality extensions designed (some thing were in works when I left) but still by Sales, Marketing and Partnerships SpyLOG was able…
