Learning the Database Landscape in the Opensource World

rbernier@mediosystems.com

PART I: surveying the land PART II: taking a walk in the park,

MySQL vs PostgreSQL PART III: welcome to a brave new world,

making the commitment PART IV: concluding remarks

PART I: surveying the landscape

About this presentation A definition of power In the beginning... The significance of license, "la raison d'être" Databases; deciding which one is better... yeah right!

The objective of this talk is to empower you in your decision making process vis a vis database systems in the workplace

About Power it's not money or influence It's knowledge

Power is the awarenes of the significance of events of the past and present and leveraging it to one's advantage before anyone else figures it out

IN THE BEGINNING...?

Dawn Of The Relational Model Ted Codd (1970) and his Rules for Relational

Databases

Three Great Contemporary Forces IBM ORACLE University of Berkley California

(a product of the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex)

The Significance Of License, "La raison d'être" The implications of closed vs open vs bsd vs gpl

licensing Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) GNU General Public License (GPL)

GNU GNU General Public LicenseGNU GNU GNU General Public License

More About the Opensource Licenses BSD: the race to get the best academic

minds GPL: revenge is sweet, the Richard Stallman

Deciding which one is better Corporate culture (established vs startup) The people The DBA (or lack of) Current technology (even the OS makes a difference) The requirements Making comparisions & the effects of licensing

PART II: Taking a walk in the garden, MySQL vs PostgreSQL

An everyman's history of Postgres and MySQL IN THE 90's

The effects of license

An everyman's history of Postgres and MySQL IN THE 90's

Both have already been long in existence but then the Internet came along

The state of PostgreSQL and its early adopters The state of MySQL and its early adopters

The effects of license popularization how the GPL license centralizes and coordinates mindshare how the BSD license encourages decentralization of control and

encourages innovative paradigms perception, the appearance of superiority corporatization and the monetizing of mindshare

GPL transforms into a commercial entity BSD fragments mindshare; development is localized, overall

development is only possible on the technology itself i.e. no marketing, no training, no publications etc.

PART III: WELCOME TO A BRAVE NEW WORLD

Finding qualified candidates Training new people Working with consultants The opensource help desk

Finding qualified candidates Ideal educational background... you've got to be kidding! Work history: traditional vs non-traditional Looking for people with an online presence

mail lists forums Linklin Facebook Twitter Google

Training new people educational institutions in house corporate

Working with consultants (when employees aren't enough)

The opensource Help Desk.... HUH?

PART IV: CONCLUDING REMARKS

Fighting the rush towards opensource Fitting in with the traditionals Regarding the corporatization of opensource A final word...

Fighting the rush towards opensource.

Fitting in with the traditionals

Regarding the corporatization of opensource

A final word...

it's not the technology (it's the politics), stupid!

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