Sebastopol, CA--Early registration has just opened for the third annualMySQL Users Conference, to be held in the heart of Silicon Valley in SantaClara, California, April 18 -21, 2005. The MySQL Users Conference,co-presented by O'Reilly Media, Inc. and MySQL AB, is the only gatheringwhere participants can share MySQL knowledge with the core MySQLdevelopment team, hundreds of users, open source innovators, andtechnology partners--all under one roof.
Many publications and analyst firms point to the explosive adoption ofopen source software as the hottest trend in corporate computingtoday--and MySQL as one of the leading influences. This conference isdesigned to keep MySQL users, developers, DBAs, and IT professionals onthe cutting edge of the latest solutions and opportunities. New andexperienced users alike can choose from over 75 sessions and in-depthtutorials, exploring every aspect of MySQL: the latest features, tools,and technologies; migration and performance optimization techniques; MySQLCluster and high-availability; integrating MySQL with Java, .Net, and LAMP;database administration; data warehousing applications; and much more.
The wide range of sessions, tutorials, speakers, and sponsors epitomizesthe conference theme, "MySQL Everywhere." As Arjen Lentz, programcommittee chair and manager of Community Relations at MySQL, notes, "Thethird annual MySQL Users Conference promises to be the biggest and bestwe've ever organized. We're assembling all of the key MySQL developers,gurus, and experts."
Keynote speakers slated to present at the conference include:- MySQL AB co-founders Monty Widenius and David Axmark- Martin Fink, Hewlett-Packard's vice president for Linux- Miguel de Icaza of Novell- Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB- O'Reilly Media founder and CEO Tim O'Reilly
A sampling of other speakers include Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, AdamTrachtenberg of eBay, LiveJournal's Brad Fitzpatrick, MIT's Jacob Nikom,and top members of the MySQL AB team, such as Brian Aker (architecture),Sanja Byelkin (query cache, subqueries), Peter Zaitsev (performancetuning), and Mike Zinner (GUI tools).
High-profile conference sponsors also illustrate MySQL's impact across thesoftware industry: Hewlett-Packard, Business Objects, Emic Networks,Four J's, Genesi, Intel, ActiveGrid, Dell, EMB Software, EmbarcaderoTechnologies, Novell, Quest Software, Rackspace, SugarCRM, and Zend.Lively evening events and an exhibit hall that showcases the most excitingnew MySQL and open source technologies round out the conference program.
MySQL AB develops, markets and supports a family of high performance,affordable database servers and tools. The company's flagship product isMySQL, the world's most popular open source database, with more than fivemillion active installations. Many of the world's largest organizations,including Google, Sabre Holdings, The Associated Press, Suzuki and NASA,are realizing significant cost savings by using MySQL to power Web sites,business-critical enterprise applications and packaged software. MySQL ABis a second generation open source company, with dual licensing thatsupports both open source values and corporate customers' needs in aprofitable, sustainable business. For more information about MySQL, pleasego to www.mysql.com.
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