…Sun follow Open Source spirit of MySQL Founders (and I mean Founders because spirit is not uniform across everyone in the company) or will we see more and…saying once on the company meeting few years ago “If MySQL will get market value as Google is now, every one in…
Post: Another ingenious piece of Sun Marketing
March 20, 2009 By 20 Comments
… the thread itself I had a lot of private comments in my mail from Sun… this work now made it to the Sun blueprint making it recommended reference architecture…. is solution – instead of 1TB database we should run 1000 instances with 1GB each… Do not take it as me saying T5440 is never good for MySQL….
Post: SpyLOG Was sold the other day, time to look back
August 11, 2007 By 2 Comments
…we announced our own startup project ClickAider which operates in related market. This deal reassures us there are money to be earned in the…the same time. A lot of these projects never saw the sun…should ask. The…
Post: How Percona Develops Open-Source Software
January 9, 2009 By 4 Comments
…We don’t involve the community very much in our decisions about what features to include, or how they should get built; and we…we stand behind the builds and we support them. The builds power some of the most demanding MySQL installations in the…
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…like to be small wheels spinning in the huge engine. As for me MySQL…am not saying Sun is a bad company. I have not ever been Sun employee (though… if the new company is good for them to continue their career or they should…
Post: Rendundant Array of Inexpensive Servers
August 21, 2008 By 15 Comments
…we‘re designing the system so it can tolerate hardware failures should we bother about hardware quality at all ? The answer is yes in…Sun is so proud about checksums on the file system level in…
Post: MySQL Pays attention to Bugs (Finally!)
May 20, 2009 By 5 Comments
…should say I can see results of new engineering/refactoring/bug hunt efforts inside Sun…the bugs system about bugs I reported long ago which were deferred to be fixed later or were left in…
