Miguel deIcaza addresses MySQL User Conference

Posted on Thu 21 April 2005 in Databases

Miguel gave a high-energy, high-enthusiasm, but rather scattered keynote address to the MySQL User Conference this morning:

  • Mentions of Apache Derby in context of Mono.Net Java interpreter: 2
  • Mentions of SQLite as embedded database for Fspot application: 2
  • Mentions of DB2 as supported database in Mono ADO.Net connector: 1
  • Mentions of MySQL as supported database in Mono ADO.Net connector: 1

Probably not what the MySQL folks had in mind :-)

It was great to see him leap about demonstrating the Mono.GTK# binding superiority to the Windows.Forms bindings for internationalized GUI applications, to 30 GB of photos he took in Beirut in the midst of a pro-Hezbollah demonstration, to the Fspot photo organizer, and a lot of fun to make those leaps with him. Of note:

  • Ximian's original delivery plan for Evolution after acquiring venture capital was four months; ended up taking 2.5 years (due to native C source memory allocation / freeing issues)
  • IronPython now runs at 90% of the speed of CPython
  • the acquisition of Ximian by Novell forced the stabilization and delivery of Mono (as Novell plans to deliver applications built with Mono)

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