Zimbra Acquired By Yahoo!
September 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Yesterday it was announced that Zimbra was acquired by Yahoo!. The initial shock of this for me is related to the fact that Plymouth State University just recently released Zimbra to our campus constituents. This changes this tool from a diamond in the rough that we recognized to something clearly recognized by a big player in the industry as a quality tool.
My only fear would be the direction the platform goes in. Many were unhappy about the Yahoo purchase of Flickr. Also, companies’ innovation can sometimes get slowed up while they are merging with a bigger organization. Regardless of those concerns, I’m excited about this change and look for good things to come from this partnership.
This excitement seems to be shared by our sales representative who sent us this:
We’re really excited because of the resources and commitment Yahoo brings to help Zimbra continue focusing on our key markets, including the Education sector. One of Yahoo’s key objectives in acquiring Zimbra is supporting and growing our presence in EDU, including on-premises deployments at colleges. Yahoo is a major proponent of open technologies and this will allow us to further grow the integration options and features of Zimbra, along with our partners in the EDU sector.
Tags: edu, education, email, merger, yahoo, zimbra
MySQL Performance Blogs
March 7, 2007 | 2 Comments
I’ve recently been doing a lot of work with performance tuning in MySQL. Here are a few blogs that I have found highly useful by people who are involved in some of the most serious MySQL based projects on the internet.
Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko: MySQL Performance Blog
Zaitsev used to work as manager of High Performance Group at MySQL. Now he and Tkachenko run a consultant business specializing in high performance MySQL. He is common on the presentation circuit and has made his presentations all available. Tkachenko worked as a performance and scalability engineer under Zaitsev at MySQL. This blog contains great benchmarking and deep understanding of the MySQL infrastructure.
Domas Mituzas: Vaporware, Inc
Mituzas currently works for MySQL and is responsible for much of the scaling and performance tuning for Wikipedia. He also worked to make WordPress much more efficient in the latest versions. His blog has some examples and tips for scaling and performance tuning. Since he has such solid real world experience with Wikipedia, these examples and explanations are truly invaluable to understanding how to work with MySQL in amazingly efficient ways.
Jeremy Zawodny: Jeremy Zawodny’s blog
Zawodny works at Yahoo and is responsible for the amazing MySQL administration tool mytop. When it comes to MySQL, Zawodny is likely the best recognized name. He also wrote the O’Reilly book, High Performance MySQL. He also has some informative presentations available, but they are definitely starting to become dated.
If anyone else knows of great MySQL blogs, specifically that apply to performance tuning, scaling, and optimization, please let me know.
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Connecting Google Talk to AIM, MSN, and/or Yahoo
January 23, 2006 | 8 Comments
I’ve been using Google Talk lately as my IM client, but a lot of my annoying friends and family still use the advertisement heavy and intrusive AIM client. I’d still like to be able to talk with them, but I want to only use one IM client.
Someone figured out a sweet way to accomplish this using the Jabber protocol as an intermediary. Check out the instruction here. Basically you make the bridge using PSI initially, then you can go back to Google Talk. It is slightly cumbersome, but the results rule.
Tags: aim, aol, aol instant messenger, google, google talk, im, instant message, instant messaging, jabber, msn, psi, talk, yahoo