Here are a few tidbits I’ve overheard while walking the halls at the MySQL User Conference today:
- “I was really impressed by Marten Mickos’ keynote. I guess in Europe they hire CEOs who really know their stuff.” (Ouch!)
- “I’m sitting here at lunch with a guy from Mexico who uses MySQL to manage an auto manufacturing business. And those guys across the table are from istockphoto.com in Canada. And they’re both talking to an engineer from Sweden about MySQL performance optimization. It doesn’t get much better than this.”
- “This is my favorite conference. There’s so much good material, and it’s all so practical.”
- “Someone’s turned S3 into a storage engine for MySQL. How cool is that!”
OK, O’Reilly co-produces this conference, and I’m on the board of MySQL, but it is a darn impressive conference. The depth and breadth of the sessions truly is remarkable.