Diamond Notes

I landed in Boston this afternoon at a couple of minutes past one. Not sure if I went to the northeast part of the US when I was very young, but I haven’t been there since I can remember. Anyways, it was interesting. Traffic is something else and pedestrians seemingly just wander out into the road at random. Nice.

I am here to begin training for my new job. In July I will be opening an office for the Pythian Group (http://www.pythian.com) in Pensacola, FL. It is going to a great challenge. I will be here with Sheeri Cabral for two weeks and then travel to Ottawa for two weeks at corporate headquarters.

Tonight we went to a meeting that Sun put on somewhere here in Boston. I have no clue where .. we took the subway (two different lines) and then walked for a couple of blocks to a place called The Butcher Shop. It was a nice place. The meeting was a meet/greet type event for local people involved in the Sun world. There was some good discussion about MySQL, how it is being used and how to improve it. There was a panel of four people with Zack Urlocker from Sun/MySQL and two CEO’s from open-source based companies (sorry guys..I don’t remember your companies names..shame on me). Sheeri did a great job providing the MySQL community perspective.

It is good to know that Sun is taking the time to understand what people thinks about how to best develop MySQL. It isn’t a perfect process, but they are trying.