In the news again today :)... but for something technical
Posted Friday Apr 18th, 2008 01:54pm
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
Command Prompt made news today at the grace of our very good partners in the PostgreSQL Community, Truviso. We are working with Truviso to implement some very cool vacuum features that will help with long running transactions.
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Posted Friday Apr 18th, 2008 01:54pm
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
Command Prompt made news today at the grace of our very good partners in the PostgreSQL Community, Truviso. We are working with Truviso to implement some very cool vacuum features that will help with long running transactions.
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Additional comments about my talk at MySQLCon
Posted Friday Apr 18th, 2008 10:27am
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
Colin Charles blogged about my talk at MySQLCon. I wanted to clear a few things up that he mentioned.
I noted in my talk:
EnterpriseDB is the opposite, they’re closing up more and more.
I spoke with Bob Zurek who is the CTO of EnterpriseDB. I was not correct in my EnterpriseDB comment. My reference came from this page which is very difficult to tell which is Open Source and which is not. I still think they would benefit more if they would be to just open everything.
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Posted Friday Apr 18th, 2008 10:27am
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
Colin Charles blogged about my talk at MySQLCon. I wanted to clear a few things up that he mentioned.
I noted in my talk:
EnterpriseDB is the opposite, they’re closing up more and more.
I spoke with Bob Zurek who is the CTO of EnterpriseDB. I was not correct in my EnterpriseDB comment. My reference came from this page which is very difficult to tell which is Open Source and which is not. I still think they would benefit more if they would be to just open everything.
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What MySQL (and really, Sun) can learn from PostgreSQL
Posted Thursday Apr 17th, 2008 08:23pm
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
I spent April 17th, 2008 flying to San Jose, Ca only to arrive 30 minutes before my talk, "What MySQL can learn from PostgreSQL", jump in a cab and literally walk into the door of the room I was assigned, "right on time".
I think the talk went over fairly well. I opened with the statement, "This is not about MySQL AB, this is about MySQL and the community." I think it help set the tone for the presentation. I didn't want people to feel like I was attacking a profit model or a company.
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Posted Thursday Apr 17th, 2008 08:23pm
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
I spent April 17th, 2008 flying to San Jose, Ca only to arrive 30 minutes before my talk, "What MySQL can learn from PostgreSQL", jump in a cab and literally walk into the door of the room I was assigned, "right on time".
I think the talk went over fairly well. I opened with the statement, "This is not about MySQL AB, this is about MySQL and the community." I think it help set the tone for the presentation. I didn't want people to feel like I was attacking a profit model or a company.
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And finally here is the keynote
Posted Friday Apr 11th, 2008 11:11pm
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
Selena and I are a bit behind getting content up on the PostgreSQL Conference East site, so I thought I would get my keynote out there. Keynote PDF
Posted Friday Apr 11th, 2008 11:11pm
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
Selena and I are a bit behind getting content up on the PostgreSQL Conference East site, so I thought I would get my keynote out there. Keynote PDF
Less than two weeks to go until East!
Posted Wednesday Mar 19th, 2008 02:28pm
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
Calling all Elephant herders! On March 29th and 30th 2008, The PostgreSQL Community Conference: East is set to unleash the preeminent source of community interaction, knowledge exchange and learning to ever land on the East Coast!
Not since the Founding Fathers sat huddled around candles extolling the virtues of declaring Independence from our taxation without representation overlords has a single more important event be presented to the general populous.
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Posted Wednesday Mar 19th, 2008 02:28pm
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
Calling all Elephant herders! On March 29th and 30th 2008, The PostgreSQL Community Conference: East is set to unleash the preeminent source of community interaction, knowledge exchange and learning to ever land on the East Coast!
Not since the Founding Fathers sat huddled around candles extolling the virtues of declaring Independence from our taxation without representation overlords has a single more important event be presented to the general populous.
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No, I am not a dirty hippy. In other words, on licensing.
Posted Thursday Feb 21st, 2008 03:30pm
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
I find for many things the BSD License, leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Not all things of course but some. To me it allows theft of work product. I know this is not the legal interpretation, it is a philosophical one and CMD is just as guilty of this theft as others in the PostgreSQL community including EDB and GreenPlum.
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Posted Thursday Feb 21st, 2008 03:30pm
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
I find for many things the BSD License, leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Not all things of course but some. To me it allows theft of work product. I know this is not the legal interpretation, it is a philosophical one and CMD is just as guilty of this theft as others in the PostgreSQL community including EDB and GreenPlum.
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PostgreSQL Conference East 08 (updated)
Posted Monday Nov 19th, 2007 03:57pm
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
It's that time, after a wildly successful conference last October in Portland, Oregon we are now beginning to ramp up for the East Coast 08 conference! The current plan is to host a two day conference of Tutorials (new) and Talks on March 28th and 29th. The currently designated location for the conference is the Univserity of Maryland. This will be confirmed within two weeks.
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Posted Monday Nov 19th, 2007 03:57pm
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
It's that time, after a wildly successful conference last October in Portland, Oregon we are now beginning to ramp up for the East Coast 08 conference! The current plan is to host a two day conference of Tutorials (new) and Talks on March 28th and 29th. The currently designated location for the conference is the Univserity of Maryland. This will be confirmed within two weeks.
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LewisC and the PostgreSQL vs EnterpriseDB: Hypocritical crap?
Posted Wednesday Aug 8th, 2007 11:54am
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
Yet another round of EDB PR came out today and of course, some in the community disagreed with it. This time I was not a big objector although I do think their PR was a little misleading, I think it was generally a reasonable release and that the community needs to relax a bit. You can see that thread here.
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Posted Wednesday Aug 8th, 2007 11:54am
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
Yet another round of EDB PR came out today and of course, some in the community disagreed with it. This time I was not a big objector although I do think their PR was a little misleading, I think it was generally a reasonable release and that the community needs to relax a bit. You can see that thread here.
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OSCON 2007, PostgreSQL army of smurfs!
Posted Friday Jul 27th, 2007 09:58am
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
OSCON 2007 was a huge success for the PostgreSQL community. Of course, OSCON is usually a good conference for PostgreSQL but this year was different. So what was different about this year than other years? How did we stand out from other community booths? What about MySQL?
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Posted Friday Jul 27th, 2007 09:58am
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
OSCON 2007 was a huge success for the PostgreSQL community. Of course, OSCON is usually a good conference for PostgreSQL but this year was different. So what was different about this year than other years? How did we stand out from other community booths? What about MySQL?
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For the record, EnterpriseDB and Command Prompt, Inc.
Posted Tuesday Jul 17th, 2007 10:45am
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
I recently made a post on the pgsql-advocacy list about a press release that EnterpriseDB put out that was less than flattering about PostgreSQL [1]. This thread was long and a little tiring. To make matters worse an Oracle blogger [2] picked up the thread and blogged an incorrect assessment of what happen. I would like to take a moment and set the record straight.
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Posted Tuesday Jul 17th, 2007 10:45am
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
I recently made a post on the pgsql-advocacy list about a press release that EnterpriseDB put out that was less than flattering about PostgreSQL [1]. This thread was long and a little tiring. To make matters worse an Oracle blogger [2] picked up the thread and blogged an incorrect assessment of what happen. I would like to take a moment and set the record straight.
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