… shock to the MySQL ecosystem: No IPO. MySQL is now owned by Sun Microsystems. Monty goes public with his critique of MySQL Management. Monty… Sun and O’Reilly from the ground up. The third shock comes to the MySQL ecosystem when Oracle announces the purchase of Sun… Karen Padir, the new manager responsible for MySQL business at Sun. A lot of Sun hardware and Solaris focused talks this year. It…
Post: Keynotes, BOFs, and the Community Networking Reception at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
April 15, 2013 By 1 Comment
…: “It is now over three years since Oracle acquired MySQL along with Sun Microsystems. Fears for the open source database’s survival appear to have been misplaced as Oracle has increased investment in MySQL… sessions including presentations on Oracle MySQL, Percona Server, and MariaDB during the Percona Live MySQL Conference. Percona Live MySQL Conference Keynotes Tuesday Peter…
Comment: 10 years of MySQL User Conferences
April 13, 2013 By 6 Comments
…. I started blogging late 2008. Till then I was doing MySQL consulting in Israel, but relatively unknown. In Feb 2009 I… an email from one Giuseppe Maxia, then community manager at MySQL/Sun. Oh, yeah, I knew who he was: he was the guy I contacted to have my blog aggregated into planet.mysql.com. He wrote how he likes my blogging and that…
Comment: Converting Character Sets
May 15, 2013 By 22 Comments
Sun, Glad to hear the script worked for you! It wasn’t deemed generally useful enough to put into the Percona Tools set (or Percona-Toolkit) 
I’ve given it a “proper home” at https://github.com/rlowe/mysql_convert_charset for the time being … Pull Requests are welcome 
— Ryan Lowe
Post: A piece of Sun/MySQL Marketing
February 27, 2008 By 7 Comments
… Sun/MySQL Newsletter Today which among other things lead to the site publishing among other things links to various stuff related to Sun and MySQL and among other things – These Benchmarks This may be… Virtualization Software” used with Windows is a crap ? Remembering horrible MySQL performance loss from Xen and VMWARE It is quite possible…
Post: What should we say about Sun buying MySQL ?
January 21, 2008 By 2 Comments
… the only one of people blogging about MySQL who has not commented about announced Sun – MySQL Deal. In fact I was just on… good as they can with Linux ? Will Sun follow Open Source spirit of MySQL Founders (and I mean Founders because spirit is…, our consulting company this is mostly positive development. Sun will work on expanding MySQL market further which will mean more consulting work…
Post: Another ingenious piece of Sun Marketing
March 20, 2009 By 20 Comments
… mail from Sun/MySQL employees which tended to agree with me on this being the a large stretch. I would hope Sun/MySQL would tone it down and actually spend time on making things to scale inside MySQL rather than asking… my old post about T2000 performance with Sun comments about Sun not pushing this as scalable MySQL platform. Well this is T5440 now…
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 Bradford… the size what matters – MySQL may be able to stay relatively independent branch, though large companies like Sun will still enforce complicated… it is different enough not to be as comfortable as MySQL for many people. I do not advocate either way. Everyone…
Post: Looking for MySQL 4.0 Support post EOL ?
December 14, 2008 By 9 Comments
… to MySQL 3.23 and 4.0 Supporting MySQL 3.23 and MySQL 4.0 environment is indeed more expensive than current MySQL versions because we can’t relay on Sun/MySQL… versions correctly. For example remember to use set-variable in MySQL 3.23 or remembering all optimizer issues which were fixed…
Post: Tom Basil (formerly MySQL's Director of Support) Joins Percona
December 4, 2008 By 13 Comments
… Officer! It is Tom Basil, who was Employee #11 at MySQL and led the Support organization there for almost eight years… them! And Tom actively recruited me for a position at MySQL Support almost exactly a year ago, but I joined Percona… Sun/MySQL and come join us? In his own words, slightly paraphrased, Vision. Tom knows that we have replicated the vision of MySQL…
