New England Database Day 2009 at MIT

On Friday I attended the second New England Database Day at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an all day conference-style event where participants mostly from the research community in the New England area came together to present ideas and discuss their research.
The conference format included two keynote talks, a single track of six technical session [...]

OpenSQL Camp 2008: the Present and the Future of Open Source Databases

Last weekend I attended OpenSQL Camp, which was held November 14-16 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Among about 100 attendees from many countries were open source legends and community leaders, database product architects, developers, hackers, consultants, bloggers, and DBAs.
Open SQL Camp was a great success and a pleasure to attend. It was truly an [...]