… MySQL than might be apparent. But after the acquisitions by Sun and Oracle, O’Reilly found it more difficult to promote…
Comment: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!
March 6, 2012 By 17 Comments
… MySQL is fine from a general perspective, but Oracle (and Sun before them) don’t just patch security exploits between releases…
Post: What should we say about Sun buying MySQL ?
January 21, 2008 By 2 Comments
… enforced ? How relationship with other partners will be structured – will Sun will be able to work with Oracle (Innodb Owner) well… even if it is half baked ? Will better integration with Sun products mean resources will be taken away from making things… for Percona, our consulting company this is mostly positive development. Sun will work on expanding MySQL market further which will mean…
Post: Another ingenious piece of Sun Marketing
March 20, 2009 By 20 Comments
… had a lot of private comments in my mail from Sun/MySQL employees which tended to agree with me on this… marketing materials so this work now made it to the Sun blueprint making it recommended reference architecture. It is also interesting… back to my old post about T2000 performance with Sun comments about Sun not pushing this as scalable MySQL platform. Well this…
Post: New SpecJAppServer results at MySQL and Sun.
November 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment
… used for the test. So it is not just about Sun it is about OpenSource hardware on Commodity Hardware. As usually… same hardware just running PostgreSQL instead of MySQL or having Sun box replaced with comparable Dell or HP box. Unfortunately such… ZFS ? The ZFS MySQL success story is all over across Sun‘s blogs, so why benchmarks are still run on UFS…
Post: A piece of Sun/MySQL Marketing
February 27, 2008 By 7 Comments
… publishing among other things links to various stuff related to Sun and MySQL and among other things – These Benchmarks This may… of Benchmarks for Sales and Marketing needs as they show sun stuff is so much cooler but they are so unusable… what is the best on the component level. May be Sun would stack would get even better results on these Xeons…
Post: MySQL and Sun - Oportunity for smaller companies ?
March 26, 2008 By 10 Comments
… national police agency,” said Mickos, now SVP database products at Sun. “Key to them choosing MySQL was that we are now… tens of thousands in some cases. As MySQL merge with Sun progresses I do not expect it will become easier for… their customers. So I agree with Marten – the deal with Sun is great news for MySQL and will steer a lot…
Post: Scaling to 256-way the Sun way
November 11, 2008 By 13 Comments
… cores). Do not get me wrong. The multi-threading architecture Sun has is great for many applications… however it is NOT…
Comment: Big Iron for tests anyone ?
March 21, 2008 By 10 Comments
… what you are asking for is Sun hardware, Sun has a try-and-buy program, and considering Sun‘s recent acquisition of MySQL — it seems you should probably contact Sun and ask them for the use of some hardware. Some… that meet one or more of your requests: http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t5220/index.xml (non x86, up to…
Post: Partially OpenSourced
April 15, 2008 By 21 Comments
… for paid customers Then Kaj’s post Anthropology: Sun studies MySQL with tagline “Sun didn’t acquire MySQL to change it, but… codec and media system” What is interesting for me – while Sun moves to make most products OpenSourced – to name OpenSolaris, OpenJava… believe in open source? Or just partially believe ? Why does Sun decide to develop new software under OpenSource license, but MySQL…
