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"Marten Mickos, the longtime CEO of MySQL who eventually sold the open-source database company to Sun Microsystems for US$1 billion, has taken a new job as CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, the company said Friday.
Mickos is staying in the open-source world but jumping on a newer computing trend -- cloud computing. Eucalyptus makes an open-source software platform for building private clouds, or data centers in which workloads can be moved around across different systems to maximize efficiency."

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"A number of former Sun Microsystems employees who worked on Drizzle, an offshoot of the MySQL open-source database, have ended up at cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace, where they will continue their efforts, developer Jay Pipes wrote in a blog post Monday."

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"Guess what? Cassandra is going to tweet. The open source Cassandra data management system is going to replace the MySQL database system at Twitter, the latest of several MySQL replacements at social networking sites, according to Ryan King, a software engineer at Twitter."

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"The Acquia Drupal stack installer for Mac (DAMP) configures all the software you need to build a Drupal web site on your Intel Mac running OS 10.5, including Acquia Drupal, Apache, MySQL and PHP."

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"While the alliance is meant to safeguard the future of MySQL development, it may also signal that the MySQL code base is about to fork into a 100% open source version versus Oracle (NSDQ: ORCL)'s, once its acquisition of Sun Microsystems (NSDQ: JAVA) is finalized."

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"Monty Program Ab, a MySQL database engineering company, and Percona, a MySQL services and support firm, today announced the "The Open Database Alliance," a vendor-neutral consortium designed to become the industry hub for the MySQL open source database, including MySQL and derivative code, binaries, training, support, and other enhancements for the MySQL community and partner ecosystem. The Open Database Alliance will comprise a collection of companies working together to provide the software, support and services for MariaDB, an enterprise-grade, community-developed branch of MySQL."

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"Given the fracturing we've already seen with MySQL, what with OurDelta, Drizzle, MariaDB, and other variants on the MySQL theme emerging in the past year, I suspect that we may be in for several more forks of the MySQL code base."

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"Marten Mickos, former MySQL chief executive and current senior vice president of Sun Microsystems' database group, is transitioning out of the company in a planned reorganization."

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"You can install MySQL on Mac OS X 10.3.x (“Panther”) or newer using a Mac OS X binary package in PKG format instead of the binary tarball distribution."

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"The MySQL Enterprise Fall 2008 Release includes the new MySQL Query Analyzer tool, a proprietary source component designed to help improve database efficiency. The Query Analyzer tool is being integrated with MySQL Enterprise Monitor to monitor database query performance, enabling administrators to view bottlenecks and optimize code. It's only being offered to MySQL's paying customers, however."

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