More than 400 people joined for MySQL World Tour event in Beijing
Hi,
Sun & MySQL World Tour event was held in Beijing on Apr 23. It was the first Sun & MySQL event in China and the second visit of the World Tour in APAC. More than 400 people joined and it became truly exciting event.
Kaj Arno, VP of Community at MySQL, gave his speech in Chinese to share what he has heard about this acquisition from MySQL communities in various countries he has visited since Feb as Ambassador to Sun. As you can guess from his picture, he is not a Chinese speaker. He has been practicing this speech for hours especially tones with Scott Chen, Product Manager of Software in Great China. Eventually it seemed people understood Kaj’s Chinese mostly as attendees laughed several times during his 8 minutes speech 
Additionally a press conference was held on the same day in Beijing. Then some questions brought up if MySQL would go as open source or closed source. The answer was “OPEN”. Kaj insisted that MySQL kept being open source. It was a great chance for us to address this face to face with journalists and MySQL community in China. We appreciate your participation and joining us!
MySQL User Conference in China is schedule in early Nov. We are looking forward to meeting MySQL users in Beijing soon.
Yoko Suga
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