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Jura's blog...

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Jura's blog...

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:54:23 -0700

cooltools: Cool Tools at OpenSPARC T1

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:56:05 -0700

slog blog (or blogging on slogging) : Neil Perrin's Weblog

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:37:08 -0700

ZFS Evil Tuning Guide - Siwiki

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:35:43 -0700

ZFS for Databases - Siwiki

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:04:23 -0700

GlassFishDotTV - TheAquarium - News from the GlassFish Community - wikis.sun.com

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:04:23 -0700

greenBytes

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:10:38 -0700

Filesystem ddup backup zfs solaris

Sun Wiki Publisher | OpenOffice.org repository for Extensions

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:10:13 -0700

The Sun Wiki Publisher enables you to create Wiki articles on MediaWiki servers without having to know the syntax of the MediaWiki markup language. Publish your new and existing documents transparently with the Writer to a wiki page.

Sun Wiki Publisher | OpenOffice.org repository for Extensions

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:10:07 -0700

portlet-container: OpenPortal Portlet Container Project(JSR 168 and JSR 286)

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:07:41 -0700

ZFS Best Practices Guide - Siwiki

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:02:39 -0700

Slideshare : Social Media at Sun Microsystems

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:56:42 -0700

Presentation about Social Networks, with details about Sun Microsystems iniciatives

ZFS at OpenSolaris.org

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:59:09 -0700

Recipe for a ZFS RAID-Z Storage Pool on Sun Fire X4540 : As Good A Place As Any

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:48:34 -0700

Reminder: MySQL User Conference CfP ends in two weeks!

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:03:57 -0700

Reminders work. At least on me. I try to Get Things Done (TM) efficiently, but slips do happen. And when they do, reminding me has a good chance to influence my priorities. I hope I’m not alone in this fallibility.

And therefore I want to remind you that you’ve still got two weeks to reply to our Call for Participation in the MySQL Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, California on 20-23 April 2009.

A few items to remember:

We have plenty already, but we’re looking for more proposals. It does make our selection process harder (that’s when the Program Committee sits down and asks itself “what’s right for the conference and its participants”), but that’s a task that we are happy to work on.
The theme of the conference is “Innovation Everywhere“, so put an emphasis on innovative proposals! Giuseppe has something to add on this.
Look at Giuseppe Maxia’s suggestions on how to get your proposal accepted to the MySQL Conference 2009, or Baron Schwartz’s and Colin Charles’s respective suggestions from last year.
This year, we will approve some sessions conditionally, meaning that the decisions we start making after the CfP has closed won’t necessarily be binary (accepted/rejected), so some of you may expect further contacts from us.

Looking forward to more proposals the upcoming two weeks. Why don’t you propose something innovative right now?

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Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:50:43 -0700

JavaFX Home

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:49:47 -0700

Solaris ZFS Administration Guide

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:48:51 -0700

ZFS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:49:02 -0700

metro: Home

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:48:10 -0700

Freeware List for Intel and Solaris 10

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:47:54 -0700

Thank you, David (Axmark)!

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:00:03 -0700

At the end of the Orlando meeting in January this year when the Sun acquisition was announced, I remember sitting next to MySQL’s co-founder David Axmark in the bus going to some evening event. “What do you want to do now, with so many opportunities opening up?” was my question to him, partly as his friend, partly as his colleague and partly as his line manager. David seemed very confident in the future of MySQL within Sun, but less sure about his own future role.

With that as a background, and knowing David since well over 20 years, I was not all that surprised to read his resignation letter, and in particular his reasoning for resigning:

I have thought about my role at Sun and decided that I am better off in smaller organisations. I HATE all the rules that I need to follow, and I also HATE breaking them. It would be far better for me to “retire” from employment and work with MySQL and Sun on a less formal basis.

Let me recap what David has done for MySQL. David is the reason MySQL is FOSS. Without David, MySQL wouldn’t be GPL (Monty originally planned a closed-source product). David is also the reason people associate MySQL primarily with Sweden and less so with Finland, since MySQL AB was founded in Uppsala to be close to David (and our third co-founder Allan Larsson).

(The above scene from Stockholm harbour shows the boats of database entrepreneurs David Axmark and Larry Ellison; after the acquisition of MySQL by Sun, David may afford an upgrade, even after his donation to the Software Freedom Law Center).

I wish David would have stayed longer at Sun, but I understand why he decided to resign and I respect his decision. I’m happy he’s fine with working as a consultant for Sun, doing speaking engagements and connecting us with his huge network. It’s very much appreciated.

We share so many fond memories together, starting from our first meeting sometimes in the 1980s at Monty’s place in Gamla Skomakarböle, in the outskirts of Helsinki. And then there was the memorable trip to MySQL’s first CeBIT appearance in 2001, just after I had agreed with Mårten and Monty to join MySQL. And hiking in Larry Stefonic’s bivvy sacks on a mountain in Washington. And countless other stories.

I’ve learnt so much from David, particularly as he’s been my predecessor, role model and esteemed colleague in plenty of respects over the time at MySQL AB. He has lead Engineering, before we started to recruit people with the title of “VP Engineering”. He’s lead Internal IT. He’s lead the Community efforts. He’s worked with the FSF. He’s managed and moderated his somewhat more, ehmm, hot-tempered co-founder Monty. He’s travelled the world, with a particular fondness for Asia. And he’s taken oodles of digital pictures. Not that I’ve followed David in all aspects, but it does seem I’ve copied him in the above respects, with sometimes a shorter, sometimes longer latency.

You won’t be surprised that I feel a deep gratitude for what David has done. In particular, I want to thank him for introducing me to all the wonderful people in the FOSS community. And I’m sure all Sun Dolphins will join me in the most important thank-you note:

Thanks David for having and pursuing the vision that made you found MySQL!

Lest we become overly sentimental, let me say that I am confident David will continue in his role as an overall FOSS ambassador. Nearly a quarter century working on FOSS as a pioneer gives David insights that few of us have, that Sun is happy to continue learning from, and that I’m sure David is happy to share with budding Open Source companies.

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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:48:27 -0700

NetApp faces Sun lawsuit loss • The Register

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:48:31 -0700

ZFS Cheatsheet :: Col's Tech Stuff

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:52:43 -0700

Remote replication using ZFS : Interconnectedness of all things

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:48:28 -0700

OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:43:28 -0700

Sun Open-Source University Meet-Up

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:45:27 -0700