MySQL Team Wins Golden Penguin Bowl

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

[ShaniaTwain]

Geeks vs. Nerds.. Can't we all just get along?

apparently not when there's a golden penguin at stake.

Yarrrrrrrr!

[Spy der Mann]

Yeah, but I don't care about geeks or nerds. Where's the pirates vs. ninjas cup?

Re:Yarrrrrrrr!

[StarvingSE]

Pirates are waaaay better than ninjas on several points:

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!

[ShaniaTwain]

Yes, but at least ninja's take pride in their personal appearance and hygiene. [popealien.com]

Unlike pirates, geeks & nerds.

Re:Yarrrrrrrr!

[Ryan Amos]

But ninjas totally flip out and chop peoples heads off.

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!

[StarvingSE]

Except when the pirates fire a broadside into yer arse YARRRR

Re:Yarrrrrrrr!

[Tongo]

Hehe, I tried to get my fiance to marry me on Sept 19. I thought we could go tho the Pirate ship place (Pirates of the Caribbean??) in Las Vegas, be married by a pirate captain, on a pirate ship, and do the ceremony in pirate talk. I told her it was the only way I would get married in Vegas.

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!

[fishizzle]

The pirate-themed casino in Las Vegas is Treasure Island [treasureisland.com]. Pirates of the Caribbean is a ride at Disneyland [go.com]/Disney World [go.com], which has also had a movie [imdb.com] (or two [imdb.com]) based off of it. The ceremony in pirate-talk would have sealed the deal for me, Vegas or not.

Re:Yarrrrrrrr!

[theJML]

They better have it soon, the number of pirate's is decreasing rapidly... Which, btw, is why global warming is occuring.. observe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pirateschart.jp g [wikipedia.org]

That's great!

[sl4shd0rk]

I bet SCO is happy too! http://www.google.com/search?as_q=mysql+sco [google.com]

"Oracle did buy all our transactional backends..."

[adnonsense]

"... 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.

[gearb0x]

I aint no 'Fucking FANBOY' and ive recently switched to postgres, while mysql has alot going for it (and i prefer to use it, mysqldump rocks), have you read its licencing lately? alot of traps for anyone with a commercial product that needs a database.

Re:"Oracle did buy all our transactional backends.

[WeAreAllDoomed]

>> Me, I've switched to Postgres.

with postgresql available, i've never quite understood why anyone would use mysql.

Ziff davis need to learn javascript

[Anonymous Coward]

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 .src property.

sad

Re:Ziff davis need to learn javascript

[Anonymous Coward]

Because that won't let me open the images in new tabs by simply middle clicking the "next image" link.

Re:Ziff davis need to learn javascript

[gnud]

The link could lead to a new page, and the onlick handler could use the solution proposed by GP. But point taken :)

Just to clarify

[CaymanIslandCarpedie]

As TFA states, it was actually people from Sleepy Cat (which Oracle just bought) and not "really" Oracle competing and it was the Sleepy Cat team that was introduced as the Berkley DB company Oracle is about to kill not MySQL. Didn't seem that confusing in the article, but maybe the posters and editors thought the other sounded better?

Re:Just to clarify

[puppetman]

And Sleepy Cat wrote the BDB engine.

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

[Jamesday]

Since Oracle and MySQL just renewed that InnoDB contract there seems little reason to have major concerns about InnoDB for at least the next few years.

Re:Just to clarify

[Hard_Code]

Actually the article was very confusing. At one point it refers the the nerd team as the MySQL team (http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39261695-4,00 . htm [zdnet.co.uk]), after previously introducing the nerd team as the Oracel (BDB) team. Then in the last picture is says that the nerd team had a strong lead but the mysql team came back and won. The picture actually depicts the Oracle nerd team with trophies. So it's anybody's guess what the fuck is going on. I know it's trivial, but that type of shit bugs the hell

Re:Just to clarify

[Jamesday]

The description at the start was wrong. The Nerds were the MySQL plus IBM team and that's the team shown holding the trophy. I've had the pleasure of spending many hours with Brian Aker of MySQL and couldn't miss his classic look.

Raw nerves?

[cerberusss]

UUh, raw nerves? Oracle has a history of buying and killing off products. If Jeremy could hit Sleepy Cat team's raw nerves at this moment, what were they thinking of when selling off to Oracle?

Re:Raw nerves?

[hey!]

If Jeremy could hit Sleepy Cat team's raw nerves at this moment, what were they thinking of when selling off to Oracle?

Maybe, "Damn, the bosses are selling us out"?

Unless they all had stock options to exercise.

MySQL passes Oracle at the end

[Jamesday]

"The Oracle nerds had a strong lead over the MySQL geeks for most of the quiz, but the geeks managed to pull ahead in the final round of the contest to walk away with the prize of the golden penguins." [zdnet.co.uk]

Just what needs to happen in the real world. :)

Golden Penguin Bowls ...

[smoker2]

... sounds like something by Frank Zappa !

Nobody?

[4D6963]

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.'

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?

[Jeremy Allison - Sam]

Actually I did make a Steve Ballmer chair joke. That was the bonus question on the "Sample" round where I'm teaching them how to play the game. The question was "Why does Scott McNealy look so relaxed in this picture [with Ballmer]" ?
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.