tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-768233104244702633.post5568888780412025028..comments2023-11-16T03:16:54.746-08:00Comments on The Scale-Out Blog: Presenting at Percona Live and SkySQL MariaDB Solutions Day in Santa ClaraRobert Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379726998057344092noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-768233104244702633.post-38363860704740144972012-03-13T00:18:09.283-07:002012-03-13T00:18:09.283-07:00Hi Henrik, Thank you for the compliment! Overall ...Hi Henrik, Thank you for the compliment! Overall this year's conference has shaken out rather nicely, thanks to hard work and initiative. The fact that Percona Live does mostly open source is OK as it leaves room for somebody else (namely SkySQL) to focus on the open/closed mix. I hope the people who come to the conference will enjoy it too. <br /><br />It would be nice if Oracle would send a few folks but it seems they are keeping to the OpenWorld and IOUG circuit.Robert Hodgeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379726998057344092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-768233104244702633.post-89006822253528710092012-03-13T00:04:43.553-07:002012-03-13T00:04:43.553-07:00Hi Robert
One thing that struck me while serving ...Hi Robert<br /><br />One thing that struck me while serving on the conference program committee was that Continuent had proposed so many great talks from so many great speakers. I think with the exception of Percona itself you as a company have more talks than anyone else. That can't be bad :-)<br /><br />You are right that just because something is closed source doesn't mean that it couldn't be the best alternative out there, or that there couldn't be a talk about it. Otoh for the main conference there were just so many great submissions that it sets the bar very high. I think most of the reviewers (unsurprisingly) prefer an open source alternative over a closed source one. When the situation is so competitive, I think what we ended up with is that no closed source talks made it to the conference even if a few of them were worth considering. (Otoh, maybe Kaj, and maybe also you, will mention closed source alternatives in your talks, because it is necessary to give a complete overview of the topics you are speaking about.)hingohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09201666166374161923noreply@blogger.com