We’re planning an Enterprise LAMP Summit for CTOs (Nov. 5-6) and a Big LAMP Camp for developers (Nov. 7) and want to let you know about three speakers of particular interest to companies and developers who use MySQL.

At the Summit, Jimmy Guerrero, Senior Product Marketing Manager at MySQL, will focus on the business value to enterprise of MySQL's new Cloud offerings and Software as a Service models.

Baron Schwartz, Director of Consulting at Percona, which develops customized versions of the MySQL database server, XtraDB (a fork of MySQL's most popular storage engine), Xtrabackup (open-source backup solution) and Maatkit (utilities for MySQL administration) will speak along with John Busch (below) about cutting edge support, service and appliance options for open source databases.

John Busch, Ph.D., CEO of Schooner Information Technology and former Research Director of Computer System Architecture and Analysis at Sun Microsystems’ laboratories, will explore “Support for Mission Critical MySQL Databases.”


Background
The Enterprise LAMP Summit will focus attention on the emerging readiness for enterprise use of the LAMP stack and associated open source Internet-enabled operating systems, internet application servers, database systems and Internet-focused programming languages.

We are very pleased to confirm as speakers:

--Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat Linux (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading open source and Linux provider;
--Andi Gutmans, CEO of PHP leader Zend Technologies;
--r0ml (Robert Lefkowitz), thought leader, über-CTO and VP of Asurion;
--William Hurley, Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at BMC Software (NYSE: BMC), which is used by 85% of Fortune 500 companies;
--Kent Freeman, CIO of Ingram Digital;
--Bob Miller, VP of Technology at Magazines.com;
--Baron Schwartz, Director of Consulting, Percona, Inc.
--Dr. John Busch, CEO of Schooner Information Technology;
--John Reuning, Lead Architect of Lulu.com.; and
--Josh Berkus, CEO of PostgreSQL Experts and member of the Technical Steering Committee of Open Source for America.

Big LAMP Camp is expected to draw hundreds of top developers from across the U.S. to learn from innovative open source firms that will share their on-the-ground reports in an engaging multi-track event.

Speakers will include:

--Marco Tabini, publisher of PHP|Architect magazine and Python Magazine;
--Eli White of Zend Developer Zone;
--Doctrine lead developer Jonathan Wage of Sensio Labs;
--Perl guru Cory G. Watson of Magazines.com; and
--John Reuning, Lead Architect of Lulu.com.

Intrigued? More info @ www.EnterpriseLAMP.org.


Betsy Jones
Enterprise LAMP Summit & Big LAMP Camp
Thought leadership initiatives of Remarkable Wit, LLC
Betsy.Jones@EnterpriseLAMP.org
www.EnterpriseLAMP.org