by Community Contributor on April 25, 2007
This morning, a guest blog from Gerardo Narvaja, Senior Sales Engineer from the MySQL User Conference...... In Bryan’s article he used the metaphor calling the coopetition between Microsoft and MySQL the “beautiful game”, or like the Brazilians like to call it: “jogo bonito”. I will try to exemplify it scripting what could be a real world scenario. I will be making a quick... more
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by Bryan Kirschner on April 24, 2007
At the MySQL Conference and Expo 2007, technical experts from Microsoft and MySQL are here demonstrating a number of technology projects that give customers more choice when deploying MySQL on Windows. In fact, MySQL and Microsoft work together on a number of applications, including ADO.NET provider Interop, and a Visual Studio plug-in that enables developers to access MySQL data directly from VS.... more
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by jcannon on March 08, 2007
Folks may be aware of our technical collaborations with open source companies like Zend, JBoss and SugarCRM, but to-date, our work with MySQL hasn't gained as much attention. Some background. Over the summer of 2006, MySQL joined the Visual Studio Industry Program, a program that grants institutions, researchers, companies,etc. access to the extensibility components of Visual Studio. This, in turn... more
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by jcannon on March 16, 2007
This week, the lab looks at configuring and installing MySQL - an open source relational database management system which is typically used for web applications. This paper will provide an overview of configuring & installing this software on Windows. MySQL does not have as many features as PostgreSQL , however, and one would expect it to perform substantially better than PostgreSQL on Windows... more
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by jcannon on August 15, 2006
Preliminary stuff Hank Janssen and myself attended the OSCON on the 27 th and 28 th of July. We did not attend the tutorials or the Executive briefing but were there two days of the two and a half days the sessions were in progress. We also attended the keynotes on both days (27 th and 28 th July). As a strategy, Hank and I discussed the sessions and their subject matter, splitting up to attend different... more
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by jcannon on January 10, 2008
It's going to be a busy couple months in the open source industry, with a number of influential conferences convening over the next six months to discuss the latest issues, advances and topics facing OSS. More on those later, but I wanted to get something quick up on one in particular that Microsoft is participating in - the MySQL User Conference in April. Folks may remember our sponsorship in... more
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by MichaelF on April 10, 2007
In cases where business applications have been built on open source databases, it may be necessary to connect other Windows applications, such as Microsoft Access or Excel, to these databases for reporting or business intelligence purposes. One potential application of this process is to use Excel as a front-end for data analysis. Data can be pulled from views or tables and then further analyzed, graphed... more
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by Brett Shoemaker on February 01, 2008
As an open source business strategy lead here at Microsoft, I am particularly interested in community reaction following acquisition waves like the one we have seen recently ( Sun/MySQL , Nokia/Trolltech , SpringSource/Covalent , etc.). While I am interested in reaction to each announcement individually, I find those that attempt to extrapolate what the event says about the broader OSS landscape especially... more
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by admin on April 21, 2006
A Look Inside Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab (Part 2) In “A Look Inside Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab – Part 1,” we examined Microsoft’s motivations for building the lab, its development, and some of the work done there to ensure interoperability between Microsoft software and UNIX/open source software. In part 2, we discuss some of the lab’s other... more
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by admin on May 17, 2006
VC Summit 2006 Last week I attended the Microsoft VC Summit at our Silicon Valley campus. Before Microsoft and IBM, I helped to build four start-ups, three in the Bay area, so spending a day with a couple hundred VC folks talking about industry trends and business models and in general networking with some great people, was a lot of fun. I did a Q&A onstage with Scott Sandell from NEA on Microsoft... more
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