David Axmark
2005.09.09
Guest post by Mahangu Weerasinghe
I’m here at FOSSSL for what seems to be the first live blog post from this conference. It’s pretty hard to write lucidly with Indi on my left and Dulan on my right, but the first two talks have been pretty cool so far. David Axmark’s presentation of MySQL was great - very technical, but informative as well.
After hearing him, I’m also convinced to try out the MySQL 5.o betas. I wonder if I can get it to work with my copy of XAMPP? One thing’s for sure though, I’m going to get very little else done (and very little sleep) this weekend.
Indi, Dulan and I spoke to Axmark for a while, and he mentioned that MySQL successfully scaled for a database that contained 20 petabytes of data. Wow. Well Bruce Momjian is up next, and I’m sure Dulan wants to make a post as well, so that’s all for now.
Just for the record though, there’s something really wierd about typing a post 2 feet from Sam Ruby. That’s right, he’s wearing a Perl t-shirt and booting up his laptop.
