Becoming MySQL’s Ambassador to Sun
This is a week full of changes. It’s been a wonderful week for me, meeting with so many MySQLers, telling the rest of the departments about our Community, having productive meetings, being acquired by Sun, and singing Karaoke with my colleagues from the Legal Team as well as performing drinking songs that get posted on YouTube.
The latest change came today. I’ll put my duties as VP Community Services on a spare flame, and focus on the integration of MySQL into Sun. Title unknown (as we’re still just planning the integration, not executing it), but something like “MySQL Ambassador to Sun”.
We want to take Sun by storm. My task will be to get out the message to Sun. “It’s not that I want you to filter the emails, but …”, said my boss Mårten. And as usual with sentences that start with “It’s not that I want you to”, the exact opposite is meant. So I’ll try to distinguish the requests for “super-important trade events in Muchasransk” from those truly worthy of attention, which I’ll promote within MySQL.
I’ll learn about Sun. I’ll teach MySQL about Sun. I’ll teach Sun about MySQL. As part of that, I’ll visit as many Sun facilities as possible, with a special emphasis on those outside the US (as we’ve got plenty of other MySQL executives and VPs on US soil).
It’s going to be great fun!
January 19th, 2008 at 17:43
Helt fantastic! Helan lät bra, man blev törstig
January 20th, 2008 at 10:54
It is obvious really, but what should be the harm in mentioning this …
+ every kid or IT professional in the Americas and Europe has a high-speed internet connection
+ SUN is acquiring MySQL
+ The network will be the computer
+ Linux will not be pushed out by SUN because dollars are dollars and euros are euros, whether from Linux, MySQL or Solaris - See JBuilder for instance - and with one license pervading everything, code can be mixed around freely to give better solutions to customers from both sides.
+ the web is the front-end to the network computer
+ see this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_user_interface_markup_languages
In particular, see XUL and Flex.
+ Books are replaced by ebooks
+ education is becoming “dynamic” and 3D
+ information and knowledge have a huge market … the whole of the developing world
That means, the network is the educator.
So, what follows?
Think…
Think…
A GUI frontend for MySQL-based apps, both educational and/or commercial, for *each* of these technologies to run over the network where data will be stored across the network.
import com.mysql.objects.gui.xul.button
will import from the uri -
protocol://gui.objects.mysql.com
Heard of ReSTful webservices?
Let the party begin!
hth