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MySQL Keynote: An Open Source Love Fest
4/17/2008
Mickos also announced a "near-final" release candidate of MySQL 5.1. Sun is holding back the production release to shake a few more bugs. The 5.0 version was a buggy release, Mickos admitted.
"When we released MySQL 5.0, it didn't really meet our quality standards," he said. "With 5.1 we are being much more conservative, much harder on ourselves."
The production release probably won't be available until the end of June, but the release candidate is now available for download here.
The conference keynote festivities also included an awards presentation. The awards for "2008 MySQL Application of the Year" went to the FaceBook social network, Virgin Mobile France's Mobile Operator and eBay's e-commerce site.
Partner of the year awards went to Zmanda, the open source backup project; Computacenter, a UK-based IT services and infrastructure provider; and Microsoft for its efforts to support MySQL on Windows. The list of Community Member of the Year winners included Baron Schwartz, recognized as best Code Contributor; Diego Medina, best Quality Contributor; and Sheeri Kritzer Cabral, best Community Advocate.
This year's MySQL Conference and Expo was the largest to date, organizers said, with approximately 2,000 attendees and 55 exhibitors.
John K. Waters is a freelance journalist and author based in Palo Alto, CA.
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