At the recent O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo 2010, the nice folk at O’Reilly Media got to speak to Kurt von Finck, Chief Community and Communications Officer for Monty Program Ab, about how we handle releases, why we are a superset of MySQL and more. Watch the 7 minute video, and do give us some feedback here in the comments.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_AWBatycCE …
Recently (on April 19, 2010), Monty gave a Google Tech Talk, titled: MariaDB: The Backward Compatible Branch of the MySQL Database Server. The talk is under 47-minutes long, and the video is embedded below. Its a good introduction to what MariaDB has been up to for the last year+, aims, goals, and the future.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL1l9Puh0sk …
At Monty Program Ab, communication is important to us. Being 2010, it seemed sensible that the best way for us to communicate with the masses, is to create a company/group blog. So welcome to the blog!
Our aims are simple: we hope to write 2-3 entries every week, some of it technical, some of it fun, and some of it announcing our new and cool offerings. Everyone in the company will blog here, so expect to hear interesting things from the web team, the sysadmin team, and more. Of course, we’ll try our level best to keep it MariaDB specific, to hook onto your interest. …