State of the MySQL Community at MySQL Conf 2010
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The document presents an overview of the state of the MySQL community as of April 2009, highlighting ongoing user interest, the talent pool at Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), and the continuous GPL licensing. It discusses what has changed, such as leadership and attitudes, and what might improve, like stability and performance execution. The document emphasizes the importance of community relationships and outlines future directions for MySQL.
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State of the MySQL Community at MySQL Conf 2010
- 1. <Insert Picture Here> State of the MySQL Community Kaj Arnö Vice President MySQL Community
- 2. State of the MySQL Community MySQL Conference & Expo 15.4.2009, Thursday 8:30 am Kaj Arnö VP MySQL Community
- 3. What has changed already What will change soon What won‘t change with as steward of ?
- 4. Back at UC 2009 ...
- 5. Nearly a year of an exceptional state called Business As Usual Google Alert = news Ridiculous claims yet: No Comments
- 6. Personal advantages: some time off founding a religion ... using social media running MySQL
- 7. Back in Orlando 2008 ... Short uncertainty: mid Jan to end Feb
- 8. Predicting the future 2009 http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2009/04/26/the-future-of-mysql/ Will there be signi cant performance improvements? New features? Bug xes? Code contributions? Successful forks?
- 9. What won‘t change http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2009/04/21/what-hasnt-changed-with-mysql/ 1. There still is a huge base of MySQL users out there. They have economic interests that are independent of whoever owns MySQL. The users in the MySQL community come in all avors, ranging from casual users to those who intimately know the inner workings of MySQL and have contributed to the code base.
- 10. What won‘t change http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2009/04/21/what-hasnt-changed-with-mysql/ 2. There still is a huge talent pool of MySQL experts in Sun Microsystems [now at Oracle] in Support, in Consulting, in Training, in Engineering, in other parts of Sun. They have a strong loyalty towards the MySQL users they have served over many years.
- 11. Oh and by the way ... ... Oracle has a few DB experts, too. OTN = Andy Mendelsohn
- 12. What won‘t change http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2009/04/21/what-hasnt-changed-with-mysql/ 3. MySQL is still licensed under the GPL. The GPL license used to form a safety net for the users not certain about whether MySQL AB would follow the spirit of Open Source. It continued to be so with Sun Microsystems. And the Open Source license continues to provide a safety net for its user base, regardless of the owner of MySQL.
- 13. What has been going on already? Oracle‘s contributions to FOSS
- 14. What is changing? MySQL Matures Accessibility Revenue recognition Security Auditability other corporate controls Effect on Alpha, Beta, RC dev.mysql.com vs. www.mysql.com
- 15. What has changed? Leadership ➜ ➜ ➜
- 16. What has changed? Attitude, a long time ago ➜ Coexistence
- 17. What has changed? Attitude, in the past 12 months ➜ ➜ ➜
- 18. What might improve? Execution on Stability
- 19. What might improve? Execution on Performance and release numbering
- 20. What might improve? Execution on Ease of Use
- 21. What might continue? Focus on ubiquity
- 22. What might continue? Focus on ubiquity
- 23. What remains a high priority? A respectful relationship to the community
- 24. What got a new name? MySQL Community Awards ➜ Oracle ACE Directors
- 25. Ronald Bradford Our rst 42SQL United States Oracle ACE Directors ronaldbradford.com Sheeri Kritzer Cabral The Pythian Group United States www.sheeri.com Paul McCullagh PrimeBase Technologies GmbH Germany PBXT.blogspot.com
- 26. What might deteriorate? Execution on Scandinavian Drinking Level of humour in ads for MySQL 5.1 Singing Helan går
- 27. What might improve? Execution towards Linux Distros
- 28. What might improve? Execution towards LAMP stack
- 29. What will change? Stronger emphasis on Windows
- 30. What about you? • Mysequel, My-Ess- Queue-Elle, Don‘t Care? • 2009, 2008, 2007, ... (Do a „John Cage“)
- 31. The preceding is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.
- 32. Still awake?
- 33. Photo Acknowledgements Duncan Davidson Julian Cash O'Reilly of cial Fun MySQL Conf pics MySQL Conf pics JulianCash.com Riccardo Desiderio Richard Duszczak B/W Kaj pics, Sakila cartoons Runnism pic http://www.cartoonstudio .co.uk/ Zack Urlocker Tony Cabral Helan går pic on YouTube, Oracle Ace hands motivational picture framing http://www.caricature.org/ artists/antoniomcabral/ Marc Nozell Heikki Tuuri pic and a number of pics from my own archives from MySQL Conf
- 34. Just ask! • kaj@sun.com • kaj@arno.fi • http://kaj.arno.fi /twitter /linkedin /facebook /picasa • soon http://kajarno.com • @kajarno on Twitter