
This week in Silicon Valley,
the MySQL Conference and Expo is underway, and
there are already questions appearing about whether the speakers will have to perform last minute tweaks to their addresses in light of yesterday's news that
Oracle is acquiring MySQL's parent, Sun Microsystems. I doubt if there will be a whole lot said on that topic, but the conference has some interesting events, and Sun
has also just announced MySQL Cluster 7.0 (a carrier grade version of MySQL), and
the preview version of MySQL 5.4. Here's what's in the new releases, when they're available, and what's slated for the conference.