Greeting from India!
India Shock Tour which started on May 27 has been successfully ended. The MySQL team of David Axmark, Brian Aker, Iko Rein, and myself visited Pune, Hyderabad, and Chennai along with Manish Malhotra and Naveen Asrani from Sun Microsystems India. The tour attracted 750 MySQL developers in total.

In the week of Feb 18, just before MySQL was merged with Sun, we were in India holding India Road Show stopping 4 cities. This time, more than double number of people joined and I found MySQL was definitely getting more attention and popularity in India. There was a hailstorm of questions during MySQL performance turning session which was one of the topics added by the requests from many attendees of the Feb tour.

One of the things I heard from the attendees repeatedly during the tour was “we can’t find materials to learn more about MySQL”. Well, we do have various resources online. For example,
there are lots of whitepapers available at:
http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/white-papers/

I hope you find those online resources useful and enjoy reading them until the next tour. Thank you who came to the seminar very much.

Yoko Suga

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

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

Hello,
I am excited to introduce another big event in Australia!

Following its success last year, the Extended Horizons Summit is back for a thirteenth consecutive year, with a bigger and more insightful two-day conference plus pre-event workshops.

This year’s summit will include users of Sun’s SOA & Java Composite Application Suite, Identity Management, Java Enterprise System, Sun Secure Global Desktop and MySQL.

MySQL Sessions scheduled:

Sunday 25th May 2008
1:45pm - 5:00pm A Hands-On MySQL Cluster 5.1 Tutorial

Monday 26th May 2008
3:40pm - 4:30pm Tuning MySQL for Large Database Performance
5:30pm - 6:20pm MySQL in the Enterprise - Compelling Reasons to Adopt Case Studies from Web 2.0

Tuesday 27th May 2008
11:05am - 11:55am The MySQL Storage Engine Architecture

Please find the detail at below and register now!!
http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2008/horizons/index.jsp

Yoko Suga

Myself and Larry had the great pleasure in opening a new market the other week. The Philippines marked our fifth new market that we opened together, we anticipate more markets in the upcoming quarter in 2008. Our new Philippine partner, Touch Solutions, Inc., the authorized Philippine distributor for MySQL and authorized Philippine MySQL education center has joined the MySQL family in the Philippines.

Overall I would say that the full day event was a great success, standing room only. It was a great chance to meet not only the variety of community users but also enterprise customers. Anson Uy (32), the young and savvy business man is the founder and President of Touch Solution. Anson, who first started working with computers at an early age and continued down the path leading to the formation of Touch Solution. Anson’s reputation in the industry and in the press has made Touch Solution the Philippines market leader in Open Source technologies.

When we reviewed potential partners in the Philippines, Touch Solution stood out as the market leader and met all the criteria in taking MySQL to market. Touch Solution first offerings to the industry deeply rooted themselves as a training center for Redhat and other OSS technologies. Touch Solution brings several years of Open Source experience and deep understanding of the OSS business model with their past and current relationship with Redhat and other Open Source vendors. I look forward in working with Touch Solutions and anticipate great things from them! So let’s welcome Anson and Touch Solution to the MySQL family!

//Daniel

MySQL is hiring for Sales Engineering in APAC.  The jobs are location independent, but priority is given to applicants that are nearest our key customer concentrations.  Please contact us if you feel you are qualified.

Larry Stefonic