Me Myself Ashok

Held at Putrajaya International Convention Centre which was organized by both MDEC and SUN Microsystems Malaysia. Was attended by few tops of the industry like president for SUN system’s South East Asia, MySQL community developers,

CEO of regional companies like MDEC and other registered participants for the conference.

I was one among few others representing my company at the conference as we entered the place it was big and quite attractive with the event managers guiding the participants to the respective seating & breakfast sections. Finally it started and been good quite informative in expanding my knowledge about the Open Source Systems, its Usages & implementation strategies.

The main motto of the conference was to officially launch the MySQL combining with SUN Microsystems and supporting MDEC (Multimedia Development Corporation) for the Government planned OSS programmes.

Few facts I learned about few Open source software’s there:

1. MySQL was acquired by SUN for almost 1Billion USD
2. MySQL releases in 2 versions the community and enterprise versions while the community versions are used mostly by the mid-range applications while the enterprise versions are used by big IT vendors which offers support and additional enterprise tools.
3. Many of the Internets popular websites use MySQL as there back end Database systems like Google, Facebook, YouTube & Flickr etc.
4. MySQL records on an average 50-70k downloads per day
5. With the adoption of the OSS schemes in various government agencies the Malaysian Government saved up to RM32 Million.
6. SUN actually stands for Stanford University Network
7. Did you know the 70% of world Air Traffic Control systems run on Sun Solaris.
8. Microsoft Windows XP took about whooping 40billion lines of code done by 1800 developer team.

For more info on SUN systems and MySQL just browse on to www.sun.com