TechCast Live: The MySQL Community Lives-Can We Believe Oracle

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Written By Darla Baker

This Oracle TechCast which comes to us from an "undisclosed location" in Silcon Valley, offers us assurance that Oracle is committed to maintaining the free, open source, GPL'd community edition of MySQL. They have recently released version 5.5 and state that they are hiring within Oracle and will surpass Sun's investment into the MySQL project. Jono Bacon, the Ubutu community manager and author of the book, The Art of Community, offers his insight into how Oracle can foster and support the already vibrant MySQL community.

This TechCast clears up the question once and for all, "How do you pronounce MySQL". The answer: my es que el. The folks at Oracle are clearly working hard to train themselves not to refer to MySQL as my sequel. Let's hope they succeed.

Luke Kowalski, Oracle VP in the Corporate Architecture Group, and Jono Bacon, Ubuntu community manager and author of The Art of Community, discuss the meaning and value of "community" and why the MySQL one offers the penultimate example.

Darla Baker

Darla Baker is the author of the Amazon best-selling novel Eagle Cove (Thalia Chase: Sex Therapist Series, Book One). She is the founder of Stone Soup Community, a non-profit press focusing on helping queer writers market their books.

Darla lives with her wife on the shores of beautiful Lake Cumberland, Kentucky during lake season and on the road in her custom campervan, Dulcinea, the rest of the year. Her adorable staffy, Mati, is always by her side.

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