MySQL Journal

5th International Cloud Expo New York Any new technology adoption happens because of one of the three reasons: Capability: It allows us to do something which was not feasible earlier Convenience: It simplifies Cost: It significantly reduces cost of doing something What is our expectation from cloud computing? As I had stated earlier, it is all about cost saving … (1) through elastic capacity and (2) through economy of scale. So, for any CIO who is interested in moving to cloud, it is very important to understand what the cost elements are for different cloud solutions. I am going to look at 3 platforms: Amazon EC2, Google App Engine and Microsoft Azure. They are sufficiently different from each other and each of these companies is following a different cloud strategy – so we need to understand their pricing model. (A word of caution: this analysis is as per the publi... (more)

So It’s Gonna Drizzle on Rackspace

Rackspace Session at Cloud Expo Rackspace has picked up the Drizzle team that Oracle cast off when it acquired Sun. In case you don't know, Drizzle is a cloud-directed, Linux-leaning, stripped-down, hitherto for unsupported, GPL 2 MySQL 6.0 fork that Rackspace is betting will infinitely scale, or at least scale better than MySQL. It looks like Rackspace means to go to production with the thing this year. Hopefully it will be stable. Register Today and Save $550 ! Explore Sponsorship Opportunities ! Drizzle runs the risk of not being as stable as MySQL, because the Drizzle team i... (more)

MySQL Marks a Milestone

MySQL at Cloud Expo The MySQL developer community has announced "a Milestone release", 5.5.0 of the popular open source, relational database software. The release it says are of beta quality but leaves scope for more frequent subsets releases of tested functionality akin to JBoss and OpenSuse who follow a similar release model. Users are encouraged to test the  MySQL Server 5.5.0-m2, code-named "Betony" but are also cautioned that MySQL Server 5.5-M2 isn't production ready yet . New features include semi-synchronous replication, a feature based on Google patches to InnoDB that en... (more)

Oracle, Sun and the Enterprise CTO

CTO Vision on Ulitzer My assessment of the Oracle Acquisition of Sun: This is positive for the enterprise IT across the board, but the biggest determinate of what it means for your enterprise is what decisions you make now.  If you are an enterprise CTO, the ball is in your court. The following provides a bit more context.  First, some opinions/assessments: 1) The joining of Oracle and Sun will deliver what they are promising. 2) The open source software movement remains incredibly healthy and remains a powerful force in the industry. 3) There are things enterprise CTOs really sh... (more)

Oracle Says ‘No Compromise’ on MySQL: Reuters

Mergers & Acquisitions on Ulitzer Oracle has told Reuters that the New York Post story Friday claiming it had offered the European Commission a deal on MySQL is a bunch of baloney. The Post, quoting two unidentified sources, said Oracle proposed to “quarantine” MySQL inside a combined Oracle-Sun to get the European Commission to approve its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun ahead of a hearing in Brussels Thursday. It said MySQL would be treated as a “separate entity” with a “firewall” between the open source database unit and the rest of Oracle and could even involve a separate boa... (more)