{"id":1453,"date":"2009-04-20T12:49:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T17:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2009-04-20T13:02:01","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T18:02:01","slug":"the-future-is-wide-open-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/20\/the-future-is-wide-open-2","title":{"rendered":"The future is wide open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/2195697344\/\" title=\"Village MySQL by byte, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2216\/2195697344_79783fbf17_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Village MySQL\"  align=\"left\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So the news is everywhere. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/third-party\/global\/oracle\/index.jsp\">Sun<\/a> has some info, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/sun\/index.html\">Oracle<\/a> has some info. If you&#8217;re thinking MySQL, you should definitely be at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysqlconf.com\/\">MySQL Conference &#038; Expo 2009<\/a> (if you&#8217;re not already registered). Find a speaker, they&#8217;ll give you a 20% discount code (heck, find me, I&#8217;ll do the same). <\/p>\n<p>What does this all mean for MySQL? You bet you&#8217;ll find out a lot at the conference. I can highly recommend the keynote on Tuesday morning &#8211; you want to see Karen Padir deliver the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysqlconf.com\/mysql2009\/public\/schedule\/detail\/8233\">State of the Dolphin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What does this mean for the Linux distributions that MySQL widely supports? Does it mean more software from the Oracle stack will be open source and distributed easily? I don&#8217;t know. I find it poignant that I had this open as a tab recently though: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.internetnews.com\/skerner\/2009\/04\/shuttleworth-oracle-a-litmus-t.html\">Shuttleworth: Oracle a Litmus test for Linux, Ubuntu<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Alas, it also eludes to the band, we all received a little over a year ago. We can all wait and see what happens. <b>The future is wide open.<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20The%20future%20is%20wide%20open&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F04%2F20%2Fthe-future-is-wide-open-2&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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