Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 10
Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for March 9th to March 15th, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
This Week
Attended the PHP Québec Conference from March 12 to 14. Moderated one of the conference rooms (focused on DBMS) for 1/2 a day. Gave the Age of Literate Machines as [...]
Conference Report: OpenMind & MindTrek 2007
OpenMind 2007 and MindTrek 2007 were excellent mid-sized (400+ participants) tech events that brought together a great mix of people - academics, working developers, activists, senior IT management, public servants, industry veterans, innovators and even pirates [0].
Some presentations were lackluster, but the informal discussions were awesome. There [...]
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OpenMind 2007: Monty's Session on Building MySQL Community
I've come in late for Monty's session - everything seems to be running a bit early - how odd.
Monty's is covering mistakes in building communities - he's talking about Dream Box and how they have let their community fragment so deeply. Then he talks about how MySQL has provided a strong central point for the [...]
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OpenMind 2007: Monty on the Future (and Past) of Databases
After a break, Tommi Mikkonen of the Tampere University of Technology introduces Monty Widenius (who is, as most readers of this blog will know is one of the founders of MySQL AB)
Monty takes the stage wearing a suit - a nice suit - something I don't recall having seen before.
He starts with an overview [...]
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Random Thought: MySQL is the Perl of RDBMS
While chatting with a few SVN hackers at OSCON, it occured to me that MySQL is the Perl of RDBMS. Discuss among yourselves.
Tags: DBMS, MySQL, OSCON, perl, Uncategorized
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Slides from PHP Québec Conf 2006
Slides from my presentations at the PHP Québec Conference are below:
Copyright, Contracts and Licenses for PHP Developers (PDF, 650KiB)
SQLite: A fast, transactional DBMS embedded in PHP 5 (PDF, 55KiB)
I will make the audio of the licensing session, along with a transcript, available as soon as possible.
Update:
Audio now available.
Tags: conference, Copyright, DBMS, License, Licensing, PHP, Quebec, [...]
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About Zak Greant: Bio and Background
Hi! My name is Zak Greant and I've tired of writing things in the third person (at least for today.)
I own a strategic consultancy called Foo Associates – we help technology organizations adapt to and thrive on the electronic frontier. We're a tiny shop, but we've got great clients (like eZ Systems AS and the [...]
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Oracle buys Sleepycat
April 1st is still more than a month away and at least one rumour about Oracle's upcoming purchases is true: today the software giant annnounced their acquisition of Sleepycat Software, the makers of Berkeley DB (and various other products).
One interesting point is that Berkeley DB was already seeing competition from SQLite (which is an excellent, [...]
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Oracle: We are the Borg?
Local venture cap/tech blogger Paul Kedrosky recent posted that:
Larry Ellison has allegedly cooked up a plan to do a wide-ranging roll-up of companies in the open-source space. Not just JBoss, but a host of others, from Spikesource to Zend, and more inbetween. About the only sizable o/s company left standing would be Red Hat.
This may [...]
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Presenting at the PHP Quebec Conference 2006
Hurray! My sessions for the 2006 edition of the PHP Quebec Conference have been accepted.
I will be presenting on an old favourite (Free/Open software licensing) and a new favourite (SQLite).
The sessions are titled Copyright, Contracts and Licenses for PHP Developers and SQLite: A fast, transactional DBMS embedded in PHP 5
Amusingly, the organizers found a picture [...]