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Download the presentation files from the conference here.

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Leaving Portland

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Why Benchmark?

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This session is given by Jeremy Zawodny. He works for Yahoo as their MySQL guy with their Platform Timing Group. He
also actively contributes to testing MySQL and he personally knows Monty Widenius (Co-Founder and chief developer
of MySQL).

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So, this was a high level talk about the commoditization of software, particularily Open Source software.

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This is more of a philosophical discussion. It was very helpful to get a different point of view on things “open”.

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Amazon extensively uses webservices.

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Whazzup?

* Internal Architecture
* New Parser
Unbreak the unfixed
Performance
Encourage more templage modules

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Uses test.pm and is a perl based framework.

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Pictures from the conference and beautiful Oregon scenary can be
found at: Pics

Ok, the projector just bombed on us. And it’s taking way too long for them to get it fixed.
The session is informative, but a little slow. Oh, wait, the projector magically came back to life.
We have 11minutes left and there are many slides to go. Did I mention that Monty gave everyone
“Finlandia Vodka Chocolate”. When you bite into the cholocate, a burst of vodka comes out. I’m not
complaining.

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Nuff said

Now this was an interesting open ended discussion. The panel included, Tim O’reilly, a guy from Microsoft, a guy from a financial institution, and a venture capitalist.
The talk started 15min before I got there, but that didn’t
seem to matter. Overall the discussion seemed to be about the “value of IP and does it work in Open Source”.
There was a guy from Microsoft there that supported “shared source”. His stance was that you can place price on Intellectual Property and
and have your users keep purchasing things like software upgrades, new versions and so on.
The Open Source folks stated just the opposite. They believe that code contribution by as many people who want to participate
is more important.

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I sat in the “Guided Tour of the MySQL Source Code”. The session was
pretty good if you were into knowing exactly how the code works.
The folks at MySQL are very proud of their database and they should be.
Alot of what they were talking about was very high level.
The bottom line is that you don’t need to know exactly how something works,
you just need to know that it works and works well.

Ok, this is an excellent view on the talk about Building Data
Warehouses with MySQL. Again, this is from Jeremy Zawodny.

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Here’s a summary of this talk I grabbed from Jeremy Zawodny. Jeremy is well respected in the MySQL
community. He’s also the chief Yahoo at Yahoo Finance, although I hear that he’s has another job.
This summary hits the major points made.

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You can find the conference archives here

The OSCON 2003 archives don’t seem to be there yet.