Photos: The battle for the Golden Penguin Bowl
News The nerd team — MySQL co-founder Brian Aker, his colleague Jay Pipes, and Ted Tso, a Linux kernel hacker from IBM — concentrate on working out the answer to a question. It's the Oracle nerds versus the MySQL geeks in the LinuxWorld quiz, where the...
[April 6, 2006, 10:05]
Drizzle project to trim down MySQL
News Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a project to create a trimmed-down, faster version of the database system aimed at web-based applications and cloud components. Aker has already selected particular functionality...
[July 24, 2008, 11:01]
MySQL 4.1 moves in on Oracle
News Brian Aker, director of architecture at MySQL, told ZDNet UK on Tuesday that the new features in MySQL 4.1 including support binary protocol prepared statements, full clustering, sub-queries and GIS data sets.
[October 26, 2004, 16:55]
