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Where is Arjen now: LinuxWorld & Expo – Sydney

LinuxWorld shows are all over the world now, and this year for the first time: Sydney Australia. Later this morning, I’ll be speaking in the “business models” panel of the conference – people are always curious how and where we thrive. Should be interesting.

Right now I’m listening to Monica Kumar from Oracle. As Matt Asay noted recently, she’s a good speaker – and of course much prettier than me 😉
I aim to say hi later, put on my own charm, and who knows… perhaps I’ll convince her to try OUR free database product!

At the exhibition, MySQL partner HP has a big pavilion. MySQL is of course part of HP’s reference architecture.
The local free/open source and IT industry organisations (Linux Australia, OSIA, AUUG, ACS) have booths also.

MySQL was a founding member of OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia). This organisation aims to provide a platform for any and all businesses in Australia who are involved with open source. From independent web developers to large integrators, it is important to make this thriving ecosystem more visible, quantify where possible, and work together at for instances shows like these.

But back to the session I’m in… it’s interesting: Monica is now talking about how companies should be looking at lowering their cost beyond the hardware platform, and mentions commoditisation. This is the plug for Linux, of course… we agree there, commoditisation is a key market trend, and it’s moving up the stack. From our perspective though, it’s already past the OS level to for instance web servers and… databases. Go MySQL!

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3 thoughts on “Where is Arjen now: LinuxWorld & Expo – Sydney

  1. Now if only the PHP foundation had the same sort of organisational structure as MySQL.

    That would indeed be a mighty corporate and technical alliance!

  2. ACS – Australian Computer Society – http://www.acs.org.au/
    and AUUG were also there – http://new.auug.org.au/ and it seems they have a shiny new website too.

    It was kind of cool having AUUG, LA and OSIA side by side at Linux World. It made it easy to describe the way our organisations relate to each other. Obviously there are areas of overlap – with AUUG representing professionals, LA being the umbrella for the user groups has a strong community orientation, and OSIA representing Australian Open Source businesses.

    Not sure yet how ACS fits, but it obviously has a broader IT perspective than the other associations. It was cool though when Simon Kwan came over and said Hey, we should be here with you guys, rather than over in the back corner…

  3. […] 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 […]

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