New role for me too...
Some weeks ago I've resigned from Sun Microsystems, where I worked as a MySQL Telecom Sales Engineer. Beginning July 13th I will take on a new role in the MySQL ecosystem, as "Project Manager and COO"...
View ArticleMariaDB / Monty Program: Volunteers needed to present at OpenSQL Camp
Open SQL Camp will be organized in St Augustin, Germany on the weekend of 22-23 August. Unfortunately, at Monty Program, it looks like we have already scheduled a company meeting at the same time and...
View ArticleOdbaårg: What's in a logo (inspired by the ODBA logo) #cls
First day at the Community Leadership Summit. Kurt will blog about our being here separately soon. I just wanted to say this quickly tossed together unconference is a huge success, with a lot of the...
View Article#OSCon #MariaDB lightning talk slides
Here are the slides for the "State of MariaDB" lightning talk I did at OSCon.read more
View ArticleMariaDB release plan and other news from MP company meeting
Last week we ended the first Monty Program Ab company meeting in Mallorca, Spain. Even if many of us have met before, there are a couple who had not met everyone before and it was great to be together....
View ArticleEU looks deeper into MySQL competing with Oracle
We started hearing rumours yesterday, and today we see they were true:“The commission has to examine very carefully the effects on competition in Europe when the world’s leading proprietary database...
View ArticleMr Carlo Piana, Europe's Free Software legal hero, joins as Oracle co-counsel
On Thursday it became public that Carlo Piana has joined the Oracle team as co-counsel in the EU investigation on Oracle acquiring Sun. The short introduction of Mr Piana is that he has been (still...
View ArticleProducing a MariaDB release: It isn't over until the fat lady sings...
When I was younger and had lots of free time, I used to do video editing as a hobby. At that time I developed a rule that is true for many projects in general (it was also true for writing a book some...
View ArticleMonty Program response to the SFLC position paper
Last week professor Eben Moglen published an SFLC position paper related to the EU investigation on the Oracle Sun merger. Even though most of the proceedings do not happen in public, the SFLC...
View ArticleO'Reilly picks up the MySQL user conference
It has been a tough Autumn for all of us so it is a pleasure to finally blog on some good news! O'Reilly has finally announced the next MySQL User Conference.read more
View ArticleWe scared Oracle a little, but their promises for MySQL are mostly an insult...
The European Commission has now got a lot of emails! It seems they even have to block some (at least GMail) just to keep their mail server alive. Thank you, all, for helping out, it is working.As you...
View ArticleCloning myself (at work)
I just wanted to post this note so there is no confusion or rumors popping up: In a recent meeting at Monty Program we concluded that with the recent additions to the community and engineering teams,...
View ArticleMonty's keynote text from MySQL Conference 2010
HiUnusually, we actually wrote a text for Monty's keynote speech this year. I'm publishing it below. Part of the speaker notes are just bullet points though, but the text may still be interesting to...
View ArticleMySQLconf impressions 1: May as well look into this NoSQL thing since we are...
(This is the first in a series of blogs written while I was trying to get home from Santa Clara. Posting them now as I'm back home and online.)These MySQL conferences certainly get more interesting...
View ArticleMySQLconf impressions 2: Thoughts on MySQL on top of NoSQL / Hadoop
We then finally came to the topic that comes naturally to anyone familiar with the MySQL architecture. Could Hadoop, or Hive, or whichever, be plugged into MySQL as a storage engine? And why would you...
View ArticleMySQLconf impressions 3: Report from Storage Engine Summit 2010
For the Friday after the MySQL conference, Oracle had invited all storage engines to the traditional storage engine summit, but this was then canceled (or postponed) in the last minute. Since the...
View ArticleIt's a girl!
Last Saturday I became father to a baby girl - in addition to our 2½year old son.Those of you who are my former collagues from MySQL, you know about the generous Scandinavian 5 week vacations. (Which...
View ArticleMy IFCLA banquet note about forking and IPR law
Below is my talk from the International Federation of Computer Law Associations conference banquet that took place in Helsinki last week. (It is post-edited to match what was actually said.)I have to...
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The return of the MySQL developer meeting
Just in case it wasn't clear from Hakan's post, we are opening up the next Monty Program company meeting in October 7-12 to be a general MariaDB developers meeting. (In fact, we've had a few guests in...
View ArticleA MySQL-MariaDB playlist
Hakan and My have done an excellent job organizing our MariaDB developer meeting here in Istanbul. For the farewell dinner, Hakan asked what kind of music we'd like the DJ to play. I realized it is...
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