Indeed I won't be at the conference this year either. In part due to PBXT's absence, but also due to topic selection among other things. Oh well. Maybe next time!
On Mar 9, 2012, at 5:27 PM, Paul McCullagh wrote: > In the end it always comes down to the business case. We can't be idealistic > about that. > > The bottom line on PBXT is that it wasn't a loss, but we didn't make much of > a profit either. > > But that was not the interesting part. The real interesting part was working > together with MySQL and Sun, and we were doing that. > > Just imagine if MySQL had IPO'ed. Just imagine if Oracle had not bought Sun... > > We could all see that Falcon was struggling, so the potential was there. > > We knew about the potential on that side, and speculated. > > But, if that is the bottom line, then I am pleased to say, there is a bonus > on top of it all. I have met a lot of great people and made some very good > friends! > > I won't be at the Conference this year, but I know time is not a factor. > > We'll, meet again and talk about the "old times" soon enough ;) > > On Mar 10, 2012, at 12:04 AM, Tim Soderstrom wrote: > >> >> On Mar 9, 2012, at 4:47 PM, MARK CALLAGHAN wrote: >> >>>> >>>> Perhaps but I assume you're not running Facebook on DropBox :) Certainly >>>> there is still interesting use cases for RDBMS's and the engines therein. >>>> InnoDB has caught up so much that PBXT no longer has the edge, but I still >>>> find it very interesting. Were Paul to have the resources InnoDB does, I >>>> suspect PBXT would be significant. >>> >>> I agree with you. If there were more resources behind PBXT it could >>> have been very interesting. I don't know how much of it is >>> log-structured compared to the original design but I was very >>> interested in that. I blame myself and others who didn't have time to >>> help Paul get this to market. I suspect that PBXT still has advantages >>> compared to InnoDB on multi-core servers. >> >> The log structure was very very cool, but I actually liked the hybrid >> approach Paul was doing with the fixed rows + log structure. It was quite >> elegant, although, being a casual observer in the whole process, it's hard >> for me to see the real impact of the design. Still, I found it very very >> cool. > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~pbxt-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~pbxt-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
