… have always felt a responsibility to build a revenue-generating business that allows us to grow (and to hire more developers… me know. As I noted, we are experimenting with the business model. The experiments are serious, but they are experiments nevertheless…) is our ambition to build a financially sound (read: profitable) business built on the principles of Free and Open Source Software…
Post: Sell-an-Elephant-to-your-Boss-HOWTO
August 28, 2012 By 3 Comments
… should still get you the attention – business is all about making money and no business likes to be wasting money. Most managers…, beware that different orders of magnitude are relevant for different businesses, so don’t be surprised if it appears that you… on what is the most important thing for virtually any business: making (or saving) money. Also note that Percona can do…
Post: The four fundamental performance metrics
April 27, 2011 By 15 Comments
… counter, we can get the “weighted busy time.” This counter is similar to the busy time, but instead of just adding the… total time during which queries resided in the system — the “busy time.” The total execution time of all queries — the “weighted… time by the length of the interval. Utilization: divide the busy time by the length of the interval. This is extremely…
Post: Percona's Commitments to MySQL Users
November 5, 2010 By 10 Comments
… quality. We applaud the great work coming from Oracle. Always business-focused We know that statements such as these can be… and the sun shine brighter. Likewise, our customers are in business to make money. We write software that contributes to our… look forward to a bright and prosperous future for our businesses. Sincerely, The Percona Executive Management Team: Peter Zaitsev, Chief Executive…
Post: VOIP Advice requested
September 10, 2007 By 10 Comments
… distributed may put us a bit aside from typical small business needs. Normal Phone Line We’re looking to get normal… would be routed to me and Vadim withing our normal business hours and voicemail outside of them. The same line could…. Of course both lines should be multi-line ie “never busy” and phone numbers should be ours so we can switch…
Comment: Why MySQL could be slow with large tables ?
April 24, 2007 By 141 Comments
….provider_profile_id, sp.provider_id, sp.business_name, spp.business_phone, spp.business_address1, spp.business_address2, spp.city, spp.region_id, spp….approved = ‘Y’ AND spp.master_status = ’0′ ORDER BY sp.business_name ASC LIMIT 0 , 100 In all three tables there…
Post: How We Got Here
April 9, 2012 By 6 Comments
… to reflect on this process, where the open source and business communities are now, and what we have planned for the… competitors welcomed on an equal footing. The event balances community, business, and technology, not just open source. Many key decisions were… are now an integral part of Percona’s business, but it goes beyond pure business. We see an ongoing need for MySQL…
Post: Announcing Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2012
August 9, 2011 By 11 Comments
… occupied the crossroads of open-source, MySQL, community, and business. Emphasis on business. We need a place where vendors, both open-source… feeds all of us. It’s good for Percona’s business, and it’s good for everyone else’s too. Our… this conference is to ensure the vitally important combination of business and community continues to have a place to meet and…
Comment: Compression for InnoDB backup
March 17, 2009 By 19 Comments
… hit, the machines I use 7zip on have distinct busy and non-busy times, so I can schedule a 25-minute, 7zipped backup during a non-busy time fairly easily. I realize this isn’t necessarily normal…, especially since it’s less of a hit on a busy machine. Unfortunately, I see that version 2 doesn’t have…
Comment: Commodity Hardware, Commodity Software and Commodity People
June 16, 2007 By 9 Comments
I meant that when smart people become busy, they act like “commodity people”; that is, busy people also exhibit a low tolerance… might even start to think of “commodity people” as just “busy with something other than what you want them to be…
