… replace Innodb for a number of use cases. The first “open core” plans are announced for MySQL Server – the online backup… Padir, the new manager responsible for MySQL business at Sun. A lot of Sun hardware and Solaris focused talks this year. It… planned GA release. Percona releases GA version of Percona Xtrabackup – open source alternative to Innodb Hot backup. MySQL 5.1.46 is…
Post: Keynotes, BOFs, and the Community Networking Reception at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
April 15, 2013 By 1 Comment
… three years since Oracle acquired MySQL along with Sun Microsystems. Fears for the open source database’s survival appear to have been misplaced…
Post: How Percona Develops Open-Source Software
January 9, 2009 By 4 Comments
… can also think about this as dual sources for the money to support the open-source efforts. One is customers who channel money… sum of the parts. When it comes to Sun/MySQL, we actively and openly talk to them about it, and it’s… say “yes” when we ask them to agree to open-source the features. Open-source is not a passing fad. It’s not a…
Post: Open Development vs Making a Big Splash
May 21, 2009 By 28 Comments
… find it very interesting how Sun does not get the very basic principle of true community Open Source development – you’ve got to give up on making a big splash. Traditional close source company often develop…. Though I think Google do not position themselves as doing Open Source development but rather being kind enough to publicly share the…
Post: What should we say about Sun buying MySQL ?
January 21, 2008 By 2 Comments
…. If we compare price tag of MySQL to other public “Open Source” companies – we can see it being about 1/4 of… Sun products mean resources will be taken away from making things work as good as they can with Linux ? Will Sun follow Open Source… for Percona, our consulting company this is mostly positive development. Sun will work on expanding MySQL market further which will mean…
Post: Percona's Commitments to MySQL Users
November 5, 2010 By 10 Comments
… make money, not to make flowers grow taller and the sun shine brighter. Likewise, our customers are in business to make… 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 Percona XtraBackup. We have also worked to create open-source tools…
Post: Partially OpenSourced
April 15, 2008 By 21 Comments
… for me – while Sun moves to make most products OpenSourced – to name OpenSolaris, OpenJava, OpenOffice, and develops new open sourced software (see above… is that ? Does not MySQL believe in open source? Or just partially believe ? Why does Sun decide to develop new software under OpenSource…
Comment: MySQL 5.1 went to GA. Was it a good move ?
December 10, 2008 By 4 Comments
… almost needed to hit production just to speed things up. Sun‘s stock crashing really concerns me to their future, especially… with open source OS’s and programs. The ridiculous process of getting 5.1 into general release makes me question how committed Sun is to the open source side of their business, and the fact that…
Post: How We Got Here
April 9, 2012 By 6 Comments
…. It seems appropriate to reflect on this process, where the open source and business communities are now, and what we have planned… MySQL than might be apparent. But after the acquisitions by Sun and Oracle, O’Reilly found it more difficult to promote… footing. The event balances community, business, and technology, not just open source. Many key decisions were even made outside of Percona’s…
Comment: Open Development vs Making a Big Splash
May 23, 2009 By 28 Comments
…. If you’re like Mark Callaghan and I , where releasing Open Source to the MySQL community is a secondary goal, you often…, then you should be public about your project design requirements, source code, bug database, etc – all from day zero. It takes… taking the big splash approach. For Sun/MySQL/Oracle/InnoDB to do this on Open Source is just really stupid and costing them…
