Report: MySQL Spring Festival 2008 in Tokyo
Hi!
“MySQL Spring Festival 2008” was held in Tokyo on April 9. It was a huge success thanks to many people coming. We appreciate your participation and joining us!
The event was to celebrate and officially announce the “Sun & MySQL acquisition”, Japanese Technical Support and Japanese version of MySQL Enterprise Monitor along with Kaj Arno, Vice President of MySQL Community Relations.
As the event started at 2pm. Tomohiko Suetsugu, President of Sun Microsystems K.K. started off addressing the audience with his keynote opening speech and talked about business opportunities growing through the Sun-MySQL integration. Thereafter, Larry Stefonic addressed the audience with his presentation, which explained MySQL business in Asia Pacific region and MySQL’s commitment to the Japan market. Lastly, he introduced the launch of MySQL Technical Support in Japanese, which is the cornerstone of supporting MySQL users in a Japanese environment. Please use Japanese-language technical support!
Next presentation was from Kaj Arno. In the spirit of addressing the Japanese audience he surprised the audience in addressing them in Japanese! He practiced Japanese for this event. During his presentation “The MySQL Architecture of Participation”, he explained market responses/activities from the acquisition, MySQL Community and enhanced opportunities of MySQL being the part of Sun.
Followed after a short break, Kajiyama, MySQL Technical Evangelist addressed the audience. He demonstrated Japanese version of MySQL Enterprise Monitor and Knowledgebase with Japanese articles. I am sure that users understand MySQL has been improved to be more user-friendly and easier to use.
After the event was successfully finished, we had a party together with Sun representatives and MySQL Community members at MySQL office in Ebisu.
We hope this event helped people convinced of the growing possibilities of MySQL resulting from the acquisition.
Kazumi Mihashi
