Hello all, Just a quick note to advise that there will be no Wellington JUG meeting in January 2008. There is one special event (Ben Alex) planned for...
Oh, well. There goes MySQL..... Atleast MS didn't buy them. ... -- Nic Wise - Fast Chicken UK Ltd t. +44 7788 592806 w. http://www.fastchicken.co.nz/ ...
MYSQL Purchase Couple of things that come to mind are: 1. Will Sun make the license more business friendly, GPL with classpath exception like or LGPL or CDDL ...
Hi guys, I'm pleased to announce a special event of the Adobe Flex User Group in Wellington for Monday, 28th of January. Topic: Flex 3 and AIR We will have...
Nic, OK I'll bite, why do you think that this is the end for MySQL if/when Sun takes ownership? Thanks Mark ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
There goes a joke (to which people seem to nod knowingly): "How does Sun make a 1 billion dollar company? It buys a two billion dollar company and manages it...
With the possible exception of the JVM, I'm yet to see anything really outstanding come out of Sun. the hardware side appears to be going like apple (ie, using...
SAP uses MaxDB, another open sourced DB product, which was run by MySQL for a while. Sun does do some neat stuff, but their marketing sux. Their new chips with...
Some good things to come out of Sun recently: Solaris 10 ZFS transactional file system CoolThreads processors with chip multithreading. That's not to say there...
Murray Knox
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Jan 20, 2008 9:18 pm
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I personally find Sun's purchase of MySQL puzzling at best. MySQL has succeeded as a business mostly be exploiting some ambiguities in the GPL as to what...
Nic, So your not a MySQL user, have no real knowledge of Sun and you don't do Java development, bitting tongue :-) Yes there have been some not so good...
Out of curiosity, have you managed to get PostgreSQL set up in a clustered HA environment? I think that's where MySQL succeeds over other open source options,...
I haven't tried either one in multiple system mode, but PostgreSQL does offer PGCluster: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgcluster Have you tried that? - Dennis...
... I'm not a mysql user BY CHOICE. I've watched sun since they released java, but I no longer play in that space for money (I use .NET, not Java, for £'s) ...
... /me goes off to do some more reading on sun.com - I obviously am not reading the right sites / blogs / whatever. ZFS looks cool. Pity my mac can't boot off...
No, it's not another web framework rant... I'd love to attend the next AJUG meeting but it clashes with the 20 20 at Eden Park. I'm afraid the cricket wins! ...
Hi all, The next Java user group is on Tuesday the 5th Feb, details below. Please sign up at http://java.meetup.com/162/calendar/6731517, to help manage venue ...
Hello All, I am pleased to announce a Wellington Java User Group "Spring Evening", provided by SpringSource and sponsored by BEA. NOTE: Registration is...
(Why do I always remember these things right after pressing Send???) I finally got around to posting (on the WJUG site) the link for Thilo's slides from his...
Has anyone had any experence in OpenJPA? http://openjpa.apache.org/ Any ideas as to how it compared with hibernate? Richard [Non-text portions of this message...
Hello all, Just a reminder about the Wellington Java User Group "Spring Evening" tonight, provided by SpringSource and sponsored by BEA. NOTE: Registration is...
I know it's a bit late, but is there a more detailed address than: AUT 24 St Paul Street WS114 ... I imagine there are quite a few buildings and rooms on the...
Catalyst IT are hosting Amazon Web Services evangelist, Mike Culver, next Tuesday 19th Feb, in conjunction with the Rails, Linux and Java User Groups. The...
Happy New Year This month we have decided to join in with the Canterbury Linux User Group, as they have managed to secure a very compelling speaker. The...
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