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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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.

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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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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 [...]

Off to K?ln

Heading off to K?ln (aka Cologne) in about an hour to meet with Georg, Sandro and Marcus (Boerger) about doing tests of MySQL and sqlite in multi-user sessions. The results should be interesting. We should also try to benchmark the embedded version of MySQL at the same time.

Of course, when I say we, the gentle [...]