MySQL Users Conference & Expo 2003 Highlights

The first annual MySQL Users Conference and Expo 2003 was just held in April in San Jose, California. It was a complete success thanks to the support we recieved from all those who attended.

We want to formally thank everyone, who participated in this years conference - nearly 500 people - all the conference attendees, sponsors, exhibitors, and speakers.

Next year, April 2004, the second MySQL Users Conference and Expo will be held in sunny Orlando, Florida; it will be even bigger and better, with special events that include swimming with dolphins.

You can still read about the 2003 Conference in the MySQL Users Conference and Expo 2003 web pages. Many of the presentation proceedings can be found on the conference site.

Again, our many thanks from all of us at MySQL.

After the Show

Photos from the Show

Some photographs from the show are now available for viewing.
» 5:19pm, May 26, 2003

Webcast of Mårten's Keynote

Techieindex.com has a webcast of the keynote by Mårten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB, about the state of the company.
» 5:15pm, May 26, 2003

Michael J. Radwin on Day 1 of the Conference

Michael J. Radwin of Yahoo! has some thoughts and pictures from the first day of the conference.
» 3:56pm, April 13, 2003

Saturday

MySQL Replication Development

Guilhem Bichot, Developer, MySQL AB

Guilhem's guru session covered the state of MySQL's replication support, how replication is implemented under the hood, and the plans for new features such as multi-master replication and online backup.
» 4:35pm, April 12, 2003

MySQL Stored Procedures

Per-Erik "pem" Martin, Developer, MySQL AB

At his guru session, pem explained how stored procedures are being implemented in the new 5.0 development tree, and gave a status update on the implementation.
» 7:47am, April 12, 2003

Friday

Articles in the Press from the Show

Articles with news about the show have started to show up on some of the online news sites:

• MySQL boasts might against big players from CNET News.com's Lisa M. Bowman covers events from the first day of the show, including the announcement of the availability of the 5.0 source code.
• MySQL Makes Push Into the Enterprise by eWeek's Lisa Vaas focuses on the new 5.0 development tree release, and what MySQL AB is doing to meet the needs of enterprise users.
• Can open source win big business? is Lisa M. Bowman of CNET News.com's report from the second day of the show, covering some of the content of the keynote Rick Cattell, deputy chief technology officer of software at Sun Microsystems.

State of MySQL AB

Mårten Mickos, CEO, MySQL AB

Mårten's keynote provided a look behind the scenes at MySQL AB, and how the company is planning to grow itself and the community.
» 2:54pm, April 11, 2003

Thursday

Navigating the Spatial Data Support in MySQL 4.1

Alexander "Bar" Barkov, Developer, MySQL AB

At his session this morning about the OpenGIS (geographic/spatial data) features new to MySQL 4.1, Bar showed off a sample web application that used data from the United States Geological Survey and the U.S. Bureau of the Census (via ESRI). This demo application will be made available for download soon. (Click on the thumbnails for full-size images showing the west coast of the United States, and a closeup centered on the Anderson Reservoir near San Jose.)
» 11:25pm, April 10, 2003

Moving Towards MySQL 5.0

Matt Wagner, Director of Development, MySQL AB

Matt Wagner gave a presentation on MySQL AB's development and release philosophies, and some of the plans for development for version 5.0 and beyond.
» 2:21pm, April 10, 2003

State of the Dolphin

David Axmark and Michael "Monty" Widenius, Co-Founders, MySQL AB

David and Monty talked about some of the major milestones in MySQL history (they'll go into more details in another talk on Saturday), and the current state of the MySQL world. They announced the availability of binaries of version 4.1 of the MySQL server and the 5.0 development tree.
» 9:30am, April 10, 2003