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Back from San Francisco
We've just returned from a trip to San Fransisco, where we exhibited and spoke at at the global MySQL Conference held in Santa Clara.
We met with hundreds of people, received very positive feedback about our presentation (slides and resources now online), and secured commercial business. We're also seeing our developer community grow as a result, as April has already topped our all-time high for our software downloads.
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Help out at MySQLConf
We have a free pass to the annual global MySQL conference for someone who can help man our stall in the expo hall.
We were invited to speak at the conference (about our experiences with PDO) and invited to exhibit within the open source pavillion, and would be thrilled to have some local support.
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Sun acquires MySQL
In Jonathan Schwartz's recent blog post he talks about why Sun purchased MySQL and what it means for them and the internet industry at large. Sun paid $1,000,000,000 USD for MySQL which had $50,000,000 USD in revenue last year.
What does Sun get out of this?
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SilverStripe at MySQLConf08
Wow! We've been invited to speak and exhibit at MySQL's annual global conference.
MySQLConf08 is the largest gathering of MySQL developers, users, and DBAs worldwide, and we're honoured to be an official part of it.
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Google Summer of Code Fruit #6: Multiple-database support
While we freeze in New Zealand, I struggle to conceive Philipp Krenn working on his Google project in Austria in anything but blizzard-ravaged Alps... Supposedly it is summer holidays there; our only proof is the progress he's made on allowing SilverStripe to work with different types of databases!
Because allowing SilverStripe to talk to different types of databases deeply affects the core, most of the time thus far has been researching all the various options and deciding upon the system architecture. ADOdb, ADOdb Lite, PDO, MDB / MDB2, Propel, Creole, and EZPDO were among the options considered...
How do humans win?
Webstock is here! We've been in heads-down mode for a while, working on sites for councils, Air New Zealand, and American clients too. So now is the time to celebrate the local scene and be proud of Webstock!
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