MySQL Conference
A business starts by writing a business plan and raising capital. Greg Gianforte, CEO, President, and Founder of RightNow Technologies, provides an alternative to lighting a fire and hoping a business emerges before all the money is gone - "bootstrapping" a company. Gianforte presentes unique, practical and pragmatic strategies and tactics to start and grow an open source organization.
It is ironic that Steve Lucas, Vice President of Integration at Business Objects, in trying to discuss Business Intelligence, has to admit that he has no idea what the term means. However, with a light-hearted approach, he describes the sequence of events that led Steve and his company to identify the core issues central to it. This discovery allowed him to see the strategic importance of MySQL as an example.
What's in store for the popular MySQL database application? At the 2006 MySQL Users Conference, leading MySQL developers discuss the latest release, ideas for the future and licensing issues the open source community faces. Listen to Kaj Arno, David Axmark and Michael Widenius as they talk about catching up on feature requests and working on even faster storage engines.
We are moving into a new world where everything is interconnected, where the
internet is the platform and where software is a service. Welcome to the new
paradigm that is Web 2.0. Tim O'Reilly uses the MySQL User Conference to present
another verse of his popular O'Reilly's Radar talk. Find out what the alpha
geeks have been up to and why the future belongs to data. [MySQL Users Conference audio from IT Conversations]
Building a system that is capable of handling one billion transactions a
day is easier than it sounds. That is Adam Bosworth's view and he
should know because he works for a company that has managed to achieve this
level of scale. Adam covers a lot of ground in this presentation that focuses on the success of the web, the scalability of simplicity and the emergence of the information server. [MySQL Users Conference audio from IT Conversations]
Open source is an indispensable element of the software industry but how did it get that way? Was it due to the success of pioneers such as Stallman and Torvalds? Was it the innovative licensing models, the collaborative community or was it just market economics at work? Michael Tiemann, founder of RedHat, President of the Open Source Initiative, Coder and long term open source advocate explores the many dimensions of the open source movement and poses some interesting questions to its community. [MySQL Users Conference audio from IT Conversations]
MySQL AB founders Monty Widenius and David Axmark open the 2005 MySQL Users Conference in traditionally entertaining style with a presentation on the "State of the Dolphin". The Dolphin, of course, is the MySQL logo and Monty and David look back at some of the major milestones in MySQL history, the current state of the MySQL world, and the future wonders in store for MySQL users. [MySQL 2005 Conference audio from IT Conversations]
