Press Release
February 5, 2007
Scale to New Heights at the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo
Registration is Open; Guy Kawasaki, Bdale Garbee & Eben Moglen to Keynote
Sebastopol, CA -- Registration is now open for the 2007
MySQL Conference & Expo, which will take place April 23-26 at the Santa
Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. The conference is
poised to offer more than 110 sessions and tutorials geared to show
participants how to rapidly build innovative database applications that
can scale as an enterprise grows. A strong selection of MySQL users and
open source experts will share their knowledge about using MySQL to power
high-volume Web 2.0 sites, critical business applications, and the next
generation of packaged software.
Attendees that take advantage of early registration by March 15th can save
$200 off the standard conference fee of $1195.
This year's featured speakers include:
- Guy Kawasaki, Garage Technology Ventures
- Eben Moglen, Free Software Foundation
- Bdale Garbee, Hewlett Packard
- Marten Mickos, MySQL AB
- Matt Casters, Pentaho
- Will Fitch, NASA
- Jacob Nikom, MIT Lincoln Labs
- Ask Bjorn Hansen, Develooper.com
- Dathan Pattishall and John Allspaw, flickr.com
- Andi Gutmans, Zend Technologies
- Brian Aker, MySQL AB
- Rasmus Lerdorf, Yahoo!
- Domas Mituzas, Wikipedia
- Mark Callaghan, Michael Still and Grant Allen, Google
- Kari Silfverberg, Nokia
- Kevin Rose, digg.com
- Guy Harrison, Quest-Laura Thomson and George Schlossnagle, OmniTI, Inc.
- Peter Zaitsev, Percona
- Heikki Tuuri, Innobase/Oracle
- Mark Matthews and Reggie Burnett, MySQL AB
Co-produced by O'Reilly Media and MySQL AB, this event is the largest of
its kind. Bringing together over 2,000 MySQL developers, users, and DBAs
from all over the world, the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo will reflect
MySQL's wide-ranging appeal and capabilities. The friendly, personal
atmosphere of the event encourages users to share information on creating
the best database applications, tools, and software through expert
instruction, hands-on tutorials, and real-world business advice.
Topics include:
- Database Performance Tuning & Benchmarks
- Clustering, Replication, & Scale-Out
- Data Warehousing, Reporting & BI
- Security & Administration
- PHP, LAMP & MySQL
- Web 2.0, Ajax, Ruby
- And Much More
In addition to the scheduled sessions and tutorials, the expo will
showcase the latest tools and products from third party vendors—plus the
return of the "DotORG" pavilion of non-profit and organization exhibitors.
Fun events and the popular "hallway track" will provide attendees with
plenty of networking opportunities and geeky social interaction. MySQL
certification exams are also being offered onsite at a significant
discount.
Get tough questions answered and formulate new ideas with the best and the
brightest in the MySQL community. There's something for users of every
level at this year's event. Now through March 14, participants can take
advantage of early registration and save $200 off the regular conference
fee.
Additional Resources:
For complete MySQL Conference & Expo details, visit:
http://www.mysqlconf.com
For the latest event announcements and news, visit:
http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/mysql_conference_expo/
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http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/54/press.html
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- Web 2.0 Expo, co-produced by O'Reilly Media and CMP Technology,
April 15-18, 2007 in San Francisco, CA
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- Ubuntu Live, July 22-24, 2007 in Portland, OR
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- RailsConf Europe, co-presented by O'Reilly Media and Ruby Central,
September 17-19, 2007 in Berlin, Germany
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About MySQL
MySQL AB develops and supports a family of high-performance, affordable
database products. The company’s flagship offering is ‘MySQL Enterprise’,
a comprehensive set of production-tested software, proactive monitoring
tools, and premium support services.
MySQL is the world's most popular open source database software, with over
10 million active installations. Many of the world's largest and
fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering
their high-volume Web sites, business-critical systems and packaged
software -- including industry leaders such as Yahoo!, Alcatel, The
Associated Press, Suzuki and NASA.
With headquarters in the United States and Sweden -- and operations around
the world -- MySQL AB supports both open source values and corporate
customers' needs in a profitable, sustainable business model. For more
information about MySQL, please visit www.mysql.com.
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