Open World Forum 2013 Paris
Ivan Zoratti, CTO SkySQL
Talk: The evolution of Open Source Databases – 4/10 9:15
Database management systems have dominated the software industry and the Information Technology for almost 5 decades. For many years, this sector has been governed by the use and adoption of commercial software. In the second half of the 1990s, the first open source databases started their timid moves, until today, when the majority of the data of the planet is managed by open source software. In this session we will analyse the current offering of open source solutions to manage and handle your structured and unstructured data, your transactions, your big data, your multimedia content. We will evaluate the differences between commercial and open source solutions and we will learn how it is possible to manage the whole lifecycle of a piece of information solely with open source – and why this is much better than their more expensive closed source counterparts.
Who is Ivan?
Ivan is a computer science and IT veteran with 30 years of experience in hardware and software development. He started his career at Digital Equipment Corporation, following his passion for the kernel of the PdP 11 machines, RSX and later with VAX/VMS Macro programming, Ethernet and Parallel I/O boards. Entrepreneur since 1988, he set up and managed several IT startups and subsidiaries in Europe. He has been an independent journalist and author of technical books for 15 years. Since the early 90s, he has been Chief Technical Architect and Chief Technical Officer for non IT companies in sectors like telco, manufacturing and retail.
Ivan joined MySQL in 2005 and led the European Pre-Sales team for the Software Infrastructure Group at Sun Microsystems. At SkySQL, he is responsible for the vision of the company and the evolution of new database solutions and services.
A native of Italy, Ivan has lived in Windsor, UK since 2000.
Colin Charles, Chief Evangelist MariaDB
Talk: NewSQL trends and how MariaDB makes it happen – 4/10 10:45
All the hype is about NoSQL and other cool databases that are doing things as key/value stores, column stores, big data and other trends. In this talk you will learn an overview of these trends. However the relational database model (RDBMS) has been around for decades and multiple databases from commercial to opensource implement this in a sensible fashion. MariaDB & MySQL are leading this trend. MariaDB is a RDBMS which is described as a better MySQL. It is fully compatible with MySQL and has more features than MySQL so for the intent of this talk, we will focus on MariaDB. We discuss: HBase, Cassandra, memcached, dynamic columns, LevelDB, node.js, JSON, and « NewSQL » Galera Cluster.
Who is Colin ?
Colin is a very experienced open source community manager and evangelist.
He has worked with the MySQL and MariaDB communities for a decade, visiting hundreds, maybe thousands of conferences evangelizing these products in talks and in social media. Over the years he has become a key figure in guaranteeing the continuation of MySQL community hallmarks such as the MySQL user conference, MySQL community awards and MariaDB Foundation.
Before becoming Chief Evangelist at MariaDB, Colin worked for MySQL AB, Sun Microsystems, Canonical, O’Reilly and OpenOffice.org.
Simon Phipps, CEO MariaDB Foundation
Talk: FutureofOpenSourceFoundations– 3/1011:35
Talk : Meshed Society and Freedom to innovate – 4/10 11:00
Now that it has become mainstream a growing number of companies and public bodies claim to have a stake in open source. Do we still need open, source organizations and foundations? Are they joining the ranks of endangered species? Participants in the panel will share with the audience their perspectives on a) the future of open source foundations and their usefulness in an evolving IT industry and b) the role they can play in Europe in a context increasingly structured by publicly-driven collaborative innovation initiatives (H2020, ECP, FI-PPP, etc.).
Who is Simon?
Simon Phipps is an independent consultant providing insight and knowledge on open source to businesses and governments worldwide through his company Meshed Insights Ltd.
He is also pro bono President of the Open Source Initiative, the non-profit organisation that advocates for open source software and builds bridges between open source communities and maintains the canonical list of open source licenses, as well as interim CEO of the MariaDB Foundation. His writing is featured in InfoWorld, ComputerWorld, O’Reilly Radar and other publications. He is a pro bono director of the UK’s Open Rights Group as well as on the advisory board of Open Source for America.
Before his current work, he was involved at a strategic level in some of the world’s leading technology companies. In addition to senior leadership positions he has worked in such hands-on roles as field engineer, programmer and systems analyst, as well as run a software publishing company. He worked with OSI standards in the eighties, on the first commercial collaborative conferencing software in the nineties, and helped introduce both Java and XML at IBM. He was a founding Director of the Open Mobile Alliance.
In mid-2000 he joined Sun Microsystems where he helped pioneer Sun’s employee blogging, social media and community engagement programmes. In 2005 he was appointed Chief Open Source Officer, coordinating Sun’s extensive participation in Free and Open Source software communities until he left in 2010. In that role he oversaw the conversion to Free software of the full Java platform, the Solaris UNIX operating system, the SPARC architecture and the rest of Sun’s broad software portfolio, all under OSI-approved Free licenses.
He holds a degree in electronic engineering and is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the British Computer Society.