Percona has been building and contributing to open-source software since the company was founded, and individually we’ve been … words, if you’re a customer, you’re contributing to open-source software development. (Thanks to you, too!) If you would like Percona…, for example — it creates an incentive for customers to say “yes” when we ask them to agree to open-source the features. Open-source is…
Post: Percona's Commitments to MySQL Users
November 5, 2010 By 10 Comments
… open-source We will always work to create and improve open-source software. When there’s a need, we respond to closed-source software by providing open-source alternatives. An example of this is…
Comment: Partially OpenSourced
April 15, 2008 By 21 Comments
… and available to all. MySQL fully believes in open source (and also in free software, to be specific) and I would list for… paying subscription customers only. The MySQL Monitor is such an example. This piece of code is not and never was licensed… Free and Open Source Software. The learnings we make can be useful for thousands of other entrepreneurs who are producing great GPL software and…
Post: Intro to OLAP
July 12, 2010 By 9 Comments
… (or online analytical processing) tools using MySQL and other free open source software. OLAP tools are a part of the larger topic of…-dimensional queries. Palo is an example of an open source version of this technology. ESSbase is an example of closed source product. MOLAP servers often…
Post: Commodity Hardware, Commodity Software and Commodity People
June 15, 2007 By 9 Comments
… of vendors would claim they are in Commodity Software or Hardware business but few would probably …and support. Interesting enough the fact MySQL is Open Source puts it in a worse shape than Oracle…store applications, especially for specific needs when for example large amounts of data need to be …
Post: MySQL - to use or not to use
May 28, 2007 By 10 Comments
… stop the process completely. Take a look at MaxDB for example, which has extremely old code base (with a lot written… releases. In other cases I can see people using for example SubQueries and Partitions and information schema for ease of management… of mind, but this may not have yet adapted to open source software world, at least when it comes to the classic enterprises…
Post: MySQL Life Cycle. Your Feedback is needed.
November 18, 2011 By 6 Comments
… a lot fewer customers running their systems on non GA software and a lot more customers running MySQL few major version… long older platforms need to be supported ? I think for example it makes sense to support RHEL4 with MySQL 5.1… various cool stuff with Percona Server, Percona Xtrabackup and other Open Source software Percona develops. I would appreciate your feedback on this matter…
Post: Can having information public hurt consulting business ?
April 30, 2008 By 9 Comments
… issues which can be solved by applying ready recipes, for example basic MySQL Configuration tuning. If the problem which you’re… I think it does not apply to the industry of Open Source software consulting we’re working on. In general I would encourage…
Comment: Friday challange: linking with GPL code
May 11, 2009 By 20 Comments
… the broader benefit to users. For example, should applications that run on Linux have to be open sourced? Should they have to pay… open source app; (b) there are open source alternatives; then who is hurt? The users ultimately vote with their dollars/downloads. To use the example… want MySQL to be a single monolithic free piece of software, or do you want it to be fertile soil for…
Post: MySQL Master-Master replication manager released
April 5, 2007 By 27 Comments
…as automatic fallback and slave cloning but no Open Source solution was made available. Few months ago …of slaves. Typically you would define “roles” for example READER and WRITER roles for most simply …balancing does not require any extra hardware or software and works well for bunch of applications …
