Author Archives: Colin Charles
We all know that Kurt von Finck is going to give a talk at Percona Live NYC happening May 26 2011. If you want to attend we’ve got three tickets to give away (worth USD$249 each).
This should be the easiest contest ever to enter and win. Just go to the Knowledgebase, create an account and write one new article, longer than 2 paragraphs. Once you’re done, send a quick email to community@montyprogram.com with a link to the article, and if there is no duplicate content already on the Knowledgebase, you’ll get your ticket to Percona Live NYC.
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Monty gave a keynote on Wednesday morning, on the State of MariaDB. He’s also just posted his thoughts and updates from the conference. Check out his slide deck embedded blow, and don’t forget you can also watch the video (running time ~30 minutes).
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Continue reading “State of MariaDB Keynote at the O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo 2011”
Santa Clara, CA, USA — Wednesday, April 13, 2011 — Monty Program Ab today announced that SkySQL Ab is the first partner to achieve Platinum Support Partner status with Monty Program. The criteria include offering 24 x 7 support worldwide, a proven ability to handle first and second level support cases for MySQL® and MariaDB®, as well as having delivered a certain amount of well-defined commercial 3rd level support cases in the form of bug fix requests to Monty Program Ab.
“We’re happy to work with the SkySQL support team” says Rasmus Johansson, COO of Monty Program Ab.
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Continue reading “SkySQL Ab first to pass the Platinum Support Partner criteria for Monty Program”
Are you a developer who is writing storage engines and plugins, knowing the plugin architecture of either MySQL, the extensions in MariaDB as well as the differences in Drizzle? Do you write User defined function (UDF)? Then you definitely want to be at the Plugins & Storage Engines Summit for MySQL/MariaDB/Drizzle 2011.
Its happening after the conference, on Friday April 15 2011, from 10am-4pm, at the Facebook campus.
You need to sign-up to attend – seats are limited. Sign up now!
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Continue reading “Plugins & Storage Engines Summit for MySQL/MariaDB/Drizzle 2011”
Monty just got interviewed by Packt Publishing in a Q&A format. There’s no way to comment on that article, so I’m wondering if you have any feedback — drop it here.
Also decided to start collecting interviews related to MariaDB on the Knowledgebase. Remember that its open for all to edit, so sign up.
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Shortly after we released MariaDB 5.1.55, we also cooked MariaDB 5.2.5 (which includes MariaDB 5.1.55). See the release notes, and the changelog. Download MariaDB 5.2.5 now!
The developer meeting in Lisbon, Portugal is about to start, and there’s an agenda available. If you’re not going to be in Lisbon, please hop onto IRC and join the #maria channel on Saturday March 12 2011 (UTC+0) as the roadmap for MariaDB is to be discussed live as well as via IRC.
If you have further agenda items and cannot make it to Lisbon, use the mailing list: maria-developers@lists.launchpad.net – make sure you’re subscribed.
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Continue reading “MariaDB 5.2.5 released; agenda for Lisbon Dev Meeting”
Trying a new format… Are you subscribed to the announce mailing list? The following is straight from the archives.
Highlights:
- Release of MariaDB 5.1.55
- Meeting in Lisbon
- Call for volunteers for booth duty
Events:
- DrupalCon Chicago
- Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco
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MariaDB 5.1.55 Released
Dear MariaDB users,
The development team have been busy and are ready to release MariaDB 5.1.55. MariaDB is a branch of the MySQL database which includes all major open source storage engines, myriad bug fixes and many community patches.
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Continue reading “MariaDB 5.1.55 released and a short newsletter update”
Monty Program Ab has signed up to be a sponsor at Percona Live, and has donated the logo placement to the MariaDB project.
Percona Live happens on February 16 2011, in San Francisco. From 11:30-11:55, we will have our very own Igor Babaev to give a talk titled The State of MariaDB in where he will cover the new features in MariaDB 5.2, and a little bit about looking forward.
Percona Server offers a range of performance and diagnostic enhancements, and MariaDB is adding more features with the help of the community.
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