NewsForge: MySQL’s Annual Conference: They Came to Learn

“Approximately 650 MySQL users and supporters are spending April
14 – 16 in the conference center of the Peabody Hotel, with so much
of their time occupied by MySQL training sessions that hardly any
of them seem to be taking advantage of Orlando-area tourist
attractions like Walt Disney World. These people came here to
learn–and possibly to swim with dolphins Thursday evening. The
dolphin outing is totally appropriate; there’s a dolphin in the
MySQL logo. But long discussions about how to make MySQL run better
and faster are this group’s main course. The dolphin swim is just
dessert.

“There are banners all over the place reminding us that MySQL is
‘The world’s most popular open source database’ and telling us that
it’s ‘ready for the enterprise.’ This last boast is not an empty
one, given the nature of the crowd…”

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