Diamond Notes

What is in the Sun buyout for the MySQL person?

• Performance and Scaling (indicating that they will be working on running MySQL on higher-end hw)
• Support
• Marketplace (partner “ecosystem” with powerful sales channel)

Design Priorities

Reliability (bugs fixed in 5.1: 997 in 2007 plus 386 in 2008)

5.1 GA release by end of June

Performance

5.1.24rc shows an improvement of 10-15% in throughput versus 5.0

Ease of Use

MySQL Workbench GA today

Awards

Applications of the year

Facebook, Virgin Mobile France and Ebay

Partners of the year

Zmanda, Microsoft, and Computacenter

Community Members of the Year

Code contributer - Baron Schwartz

Quality contributer - Diego Medina

Community Advocate - Sheeri Cabral

Overall, much of the talk is general market talk.  There is quite a bit of talk about how a major Sun commitment to scale MySQL on larger servers.  This is the one thing that I would really like to Sun/MySQL follow through on.  Only time will tell.