{"id":787,"date":"2008-04-15T11:16:26","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T16:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/15\/winners-for-2008-at-the-mysql-conference"},"modified":"2008-04-15T11:16:28","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T16:16:28","slug":"winners-for-2008-at-the-mysql-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/15\/winners-for-2008-at-the-mysql-conference","title":{"rendered":"Winners for 2008 at the MySQL Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2008 MySQL Application of the Year<\/b><br \/><b>Social Network<\/b> &#8211; MySQL powered with over 70 million active users (<b>Facebook<\/b>)<br \/><b>Mobile operator<\/b> &#8211; Highly available LAMP platform at the heart of SMS, mobile and CRM applications (<b>Virgin Mobile France<\/b>)<br \/><b>eCommerce site<\/b> &#8211; Built caching tier using MySQL for 4 billion transactions per day (<b>eBay<\/b>)<\/p>\n<p><b>2008 MySQL Partner of the Year<\/b><br \/>Open source backup solution (<b>Zmanda<\/b>)<br \/>Expanding support for open source (<b>Microsoft<\/b>)<br \/>Leading reseller (<b>Computercenter<\/b>)<\/p>\n<p><b>2008 MySQL Community Member of the Year<\/b><br \/>Code Contributor (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xaprb.com\/\">Baron Schwartz<\/a>)<br \/>Quality Contributor (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fmpwizard.com\/\">Diego Medina<\/a>)<br \/>Community Advocate (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheeri.com\/\">Sheeri Kritzer Cabral<\/a> (again!))<\/p>\n<p>I have a photo of a representative of Virgin Mobile France, which I&#8217;ll upload soon :) Turns out I was sitting next to him&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mysql\" rel=\"tag\">mysql<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mysqluc08\" rel=\"tag\">mysqluc08<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mysqluc2008\" rel=\"tag\">mysqluc2008<\/a><\/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%20Winners%20for%202008%20at%20the%20MySQL%20Conference&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F04%2F15%2Fwinners-for-2008-at-the-mysql-conference&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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