MySQL Team Wins Golden Penguin Bowl 33
ChocLinux writes "The MySQL geeks came out on top in this year's Golden Penguin Bowl at LinuxWorld Boston. Host Jeremy Allison hit a few raw nerves with the opposing Oracle team, introducing them as members of the Berkeley DB product line, 'which Oracle will soon kill.' ZDNet has posted some photos and commentary on the event."
Geeks vs. Nerds (Score:3, Funny)
apparently not when there's a golden penguin at stake.
Yarrrrrrrr! (Score:2)
Re:Yarrrrrrrr! (Score:2)
1) They drink grog
2) They sport tricorn hats
3) Have pet parrots
4) they say arrrrrrrrr
Man I can't wait until sept 19th.......
Re:Yarrrrrrrr! (Score:2)
Unlike pirates, geeks & nerds.
Re:Yarrrrrrrr! (Score:4, Funny)
I bet that tricorn hat looks really good when it is sitting on top of the stump you now have for a neck. >:(
Re:Yarrrrrrrr! (Score:2)
Re:Yarrrrrrrr! (Score:2)
I'm not sure if I could have gone through with it if she had said yes, but it was a safe bet she wouldn't. It would have definatly been memorable though.
Re:Yarrrrrrrr! (Score:1)
Re:Yarrrrrrrr! (Score:2)
That's great! (Score:1, Flamebait)
"Oracle did buy all our transactional backends..." (Score:1, Flamebait)
"... but we know how to put them in their place when it comes to Golden Penguin Bowls".
Me, I've switched to Postgres.
Re:Jesus. Fucking FANBOY. (Score:1)
Re:"Oracle did buy all our transactional backends. (Score:1)
with postgresql available, i've never quite understood why anyone would use mysql.
Ziff davis need to learn javascript (Score:2, Interesting)
putting a 320x200 on its own individual 40kb server generated page ? why not use the Image().src object and an array, its not like its 1987 anymore, even webTV v1.0 supports the
sad
Re:Ziff davis need to learn javascript (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Ziff davis need to learn javascript (Score:1)
Just to clarify (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Just to clarify (Score:3, Informative)
And it didn't say Oracle was about to kill MySQL, just the BDB engine, one of several engines inside the MySQL database.
Oracle also bought the InnoDB storage engine, a far more ominous aquisition, as InnoDB is the engine you use if you want to use MySQL as a real database.
I thought the summary (and the posters and editors) actually pretty accurate. Jeremy Allison, of Samba I believe, said exactly what the summary said he did.
Re:Just to clarify (Score:2)
Re:Just to clarify (Score:2)
Re:Just to clarify (Score:2)
Raw nerves? (Score:2)
Re:Raw nerves? (Score:2)
Maybe, "Damn, the bosses are selling us out"?
Unless they all had stock options to exercise.
MySQL passes Oracle at the end (Score:1, Troll)
Just what needs to happen in the real world. :)
Golden Penguin Bowls ... (Score:2)
Nobody? (Score:2, Funny)
And nobody has made a Steve Ballmer joke yet? OK, looks like I'll have to do it myself this time.
Ahem.. At that point, Mr. Allison picked up a chair and threw it across the stage hitting a spectator in the public. Mr. Allison then said: "Fucking Larry Ellison is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I wil
Re:Nobody? (Score:5, Informative)
Answer : Because Ballmer is sitting on the chair and it doesn't come easily to hand as a weapon
But then I laugh at my own jokes (I know I shouldn't
Jeremy.