MySQL Conference, Chapter 2

The team just finished our second successful MySQL Con. Many thanks to Marten & Zack and all the folks at O’Reilly that put on such a great conference.

This year definitely had a different feel, and of course that had a lot to do with Sun’s influence. It felt like it was almost a new event, a chapter 2 for MySQL, and its ecosystem of vendors and customers. There were more people - I don’t know exact numbers, but it felt appeared to be twice as packed. The exhibit hall was the same, but we took up a bit more space than last year and certainly there were much fancier booths - ours included! We even gave away multiple prizes this year - our fun 8-ball tshirts, and a couple remote control helicopters. Scott Baird and Mike Hogan were the lucky winners this year.

Add comment April 17th, 2008 Stacey Schneider

Video: Javier Soltero at the Linux Foundation Summit

The Linux Foundation is holding their Collaboration Summit in Austin, TX this week. After browsing through some of the videos, I was pleasantly surprised to see Javier getting an interview.

 

 Javier Soltero at Linux Foundation Summit: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

1 comment April 8th, 2008 John Mark

Hyperic at Lug Radio Live!

We are positively stoked to be going to this weekend’s Lug Radio Live in San Francisco! Lug Radio Live (LRL) will be held on April 12 and 13 at the Metreon on 4th and Howard, which you’ll note is approximately 2 blocks from Hyperic headquarters. LRL features a who’s who of prominent Open Source luminaries, including Jeremy Allison of Samba fame, Miguel de Icaza, Ian Murdoch, ‘Mako’ Hill, and many others. I’ve been assured that I’m also on the program at 3pm on Sunday, April 13, although my name is not listed :)

Add comment April 8th, 2008 John Mark

Getting Ready for OSBC

I was quite startled to learn yesterday that next week is OSBC (the Open Source Business Conference). As in, 7 days from now. We’ve got a few things going on at this year’s edition.

Javier will appear in the panel I’ll Show You My Forge If You Show Me Yours at 10:30am on Wednesday, March 26. The topic of discussion will be how you engage users and developers and sell them on the forge concept, and there will be a whole lot of expertise on hand to discuss it. Besides Javier, there’s also Rod Johnson, CEO of SpringSource, Dave Rosenberg, CEO of MuleSource, and Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier, OpenSUSE’s Community Director. Moderating is Eric Knorr, Editor-in-chief of InfoWorld. Now *that’s* a high-powered panel.

Add comment March 18th, 2008 John Mark

Hyperic & OpenNMS HyperCAST Now Available

 Hyperic HQ and OpenNMS Integration: Download (341)

Let the good times begin! The official HyperCAST on HOWTO integrate Hyperic and OpenNMS is now ready for your viewing pleasure!

David Hustace, OpenNMS President and Charles Lee, co-founder and VP of Engineering at Hyperic, teamed up together to discuss and show how Hyperic & OpenNMS work together. The HyperCAST was popular indeed, with for the first time ever in the history of HyperCASTs (ok, this is only #10) we had 2 analysts attend and several customers call in before the session to secure their place in line for implementing the anticipated integration. All the attention definitely got us excited, and I think it shows through in the session itself.

4 comments March 11th, 2008 Stacey Schneider

Blogging From SCALE

It’s been an eventful day at SCALE, with lots of interesting attendees, Linux toddlers, and our first SCALE casualty (RIP Firefly helicopter!)

Our beautiful booth:

It flies!

When Linux toddlers run wild:

Oh sure, he looks cute now… If only you had seen him wrecking helicopter carnage:

Add comment February 9th, 2008 John Mark

New HyperCAST Archive: Nagios Integration

With the new Nagios plugin to be released with Hyperic HQ 3.2, we did a HyperCAST yesterday on its feature set and how to import an existing Nagios configuration.

Enjoy!

 Nagios and Hyperic HQ Integration: Download (341)

Add comment January 9th, 2008 John Mark

Elvis is in the Building: thoughts from LISA 07

Once again, it was an interesting time at USENIX LISA. It never fails - whenever I come to this conference, I’m always humbled by the brainpower of those hobnobbing around. The intellectual density is quite high. This year’s version of LISA was held at the Hyatt Regency in Dallas.

Add comment November 16th, 2007 John Mark

It’s Official: Hyperic = Open Source World Domination

Almost a week late but for those of you who were curious about our Wii challenge…

Last week, some of the best and brightest open source companies in the bay area congregated at Hyperic Headquarters, and played a spirited game of Wii Tennis to vie for the title of Open Source Champion and its prize: The Golden Racket.

The title gives it away, Hyperic won. Specifically, Scott Feldstein (aka scottmf) rose to the occasion and took the prize:

Add comment November 7th, 2007 javier

Wii Smackdown… Mule asks for more ‘prep’ time

Well, we were expecting our good friends from MuleSource to show up tomorrow. As it turns out, they’ve asked for a postponement in order to accomodate the arrival of Dave’s tag-team partner Ross. Not sure how much Wii Tennis Ross is bringing to the fold, but we’ll be more than happy to give them more time to practice. In the meantime the teams from Jasper, Marketcetera, and others will also be given a bye week to polish their game.

Watch for an updated date and time on the evite.

See you next week sports fans.

3 comments October 24th, 2007 javier