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LinuxWorld Sydney wrap up

So, I didn’t get to meet Oracle’s Monica, mainly because she kinda vanished. I had my own talk after hers, and when I went downstairs to the exhibition she was already gone. The Oracle booth had a few people manning it, but not much crowd.

Same for the Sybase stand, actually. They had a video running, explaining how they’d been the first database doing this and that…. not sure how much that actually impresses people, pointing to the glorious past.

MySQL didn’t have its own booth this time, but I toured round Tuesday and Wednesday, met many interesting people and was introduced to even more. I found that MySQL truly has a lot of friends, both big and small. And apart from our big partners (HP, Novell, Red Hat, IBM), many if not most of the smaller booths were actually companies who deploy their solutions on MySQL. That was a nice surprise!
For instance Lateral Minds who represent Alfresco (enterprise content/document management) in Australia, and Insightful doing the same for SugarCRM.

I reckon we were very well represented. I got more insight into how people are using MySQL, some excellent feedback, and a few things to follow up on.

Just before heading back to the airport, I also met with Unwired at their Sydney offices. They deploy wireless broadband in Australia (and use MySQL). Very interesting.

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  1. We got a copy of Sybase. Very cool. It comes in this little 3 CD pack with ejector buttons on the back so you can fire the CDs across the room. Played with it for hours.

    I wonder if they are the first people to have ejector seats on their database?

  2. Hi Arjen,

    Sorry I missed you at LinuxWorld Sydney. If I had known that you were looking for me, I certainly would’ve been around! I very much appreciate your positive comments about my presentation. Please do let me know when you are next in the San Francisco Bay Area. I would be happy to meet.

    Regards,
    Monica
    (monica.kumar@oracle.com)

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