It was great. I learned alot...I thought the opener to the evening was hilarious. Nice touch!

First the creator of PHP, now the creator of MySQL. Good stuff.

Interested to hear about new developments from a pedigreed persona

large crowd

Awesome....first time, and hope for more soon.

Great job! Thanks Monty!

Looking forward to seeing Monty

Great...convinced me to try it as a replacement.

MariaDB is awesome.

Great to see the Creator in person

My first time, and I liked it a lot!

mysql mysql ra ra ra

'twas SQL and static views, Did sort and compile in the slave, All Memcached were the normal rows, And the backups, outraged

Monty Widenius

Founder & Creator of MySQL & CTO of MariaDB

Co-sponsored by AppNexus' Engineering@Scale

This presentation by Monty Widenius, father of the MySQL & MariaDB databases, will cover:

Brief intro - the MySQL/MariaDB story
MariaDB new features (that are not in MySQL)
Comparisions to MySQL
MariaDB and NoSQL
What we are working on just now in MariaDB
Why MariaDB is guaranteed to be free
How you can be part of developing MariaDB

Monty Widenius

Founder & Creator of MySQL & CTO of MariaDB

Michael "Monty" Widenius is the Founder and Original Developer of MySQL, the world's most popular open source database.

Monty has worked on the MySQL codebase since 1981. At least 60% of the MySQL code is still his.

He is a MySQL Fellow and also the Founder and CEO of Monty Program Ab that is developing MariaDB, the new community-developed branch of MySQL.