Hi! I assume most of you know that we will have our annual MySQL User conference at April 14-15 in Orlando.
During the conference we will give a lot of information about new MYSQL features that are already implemented in MySQL 4.1 and 5.0 and also about the new features we plan to implement in future MySQL versions. On the conference there will be a lot of MySQL developers around with intimate knowledge of all MySQL server code. I would like you to talk with them and tell us what features of MySQL are important to you. By knowing your needs, we will be able to better satisfy them! For example: - What features you find important and why. - What features you would like us to implement in the near / far future. - Talk with MySQL developers about the problems you have faced with MySQL - Ideas of how to we could do things better. - How to solve some specific problem you are facing with MySQL or some other database. - What you would need from MySQL to be able to move your current application to MySQL - Cool ideas / functions that you would like to see implemented. - New table handlers that you would like to implement / use. If you have a tough problem, put it on your laptop or on a CD/DVD and ask some of the MySQL developers to help you with it during the conference! If you can't come to the conference, please ensure that someone else you know comes and talks with our developers so that we can get your feedback/ideas to improve MySQL. The MySQL developers that will attend the conference, hold talks and be available for questions during the whole conference (and beer/vodka during the evenings) are: - Brian Aker, Director of Architecture (Slashdot Database Architect) UDF, Storage Engines, Apache, replication, Perl, using MySQL under high load. - Sergei Golubchik, Sr Software Engineer MyISAM, Merge Tables, Full Text Search - Lars Thalmann, Software Engineer MySQL Cluster, Replication - Mikael Ronstrom, Sr Software Architect MySQL Cluster, NDB API - Konstantin Osipov, Software Engineer Cursors, Prepared Statements - Peter Gulutzan, Software Architect SQL Standards, Stored Procedures - Alexander Byelkin, Software Engineer Sub-queries, Query Cache, Views - Mark Matthews, Software Dev Manager Connector/J, JDBC, Java - Jim Winstead, Lead Web Developer PHP, Apache, MySQL.com webmaster - Alfredo Kojima, Software Engineer MySQL Adminstrator, Windowmaker, & other MySQL GUI tools - Mike Zinner, Software Engineer MySQL Adminstrator, Workbench, & other MySQL GUI tools - Peter Zaitsev, Benchmarks Specialist Optimizations, Benchmarks - Alexey "Holyfoot" Botchkov, Software Developer Embedded Library, GIS Support - Heikki Tuuri, Innodb Author Innodb Storage Engine - David Axmark, Co-Founder MySQL Community - Carsten Pedersen, MySQL certification - Monty Widenius, Founder and CTO Main author of MySQL; Knows most things that are worth knowing about MySQL, MyODBC and some more. You can find more information on our conference including a complete list of sessions, labs, workshops and speakers at: http://www.mysql.com/uc2004 Hope to see a lot of you there! Regards, Monty CTO of MySQL AB PS: The conference is not only for developers. It's perfectly ok to bring your boss with you to get him convinced that MySQL is a safe bet:) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
