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MySQL Team Wins Golden Penguin Bowl

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hoist-the-trophy-high dept.

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."

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  1. Geeks vs. Nerds by ShaniaTwain · · Score: 2, Funny

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

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

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  2. Ziff davis need to learn javascript by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting


    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

  3. Just to clarify by CaymanIslandCarpedie · · Score: 5, Informative

    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?

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    1. Re:Just to clarify by puppetman · · Score: 2, Informative

      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.

  4. Re:Yarrrrrrrr! by Ryan+Amos · · Score: 3, Funny

    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. >:(

  5. Nobody? by 4D6963 · · Score: 2, Funny
    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 will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Oracle."

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    1. Re:Nobody? by Jeremy+Allison+-+Sam · · Score: 4, Informative

      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.