Open Source Database Magazine

Exciting news!

The next issue of Open Source Database Magazine is now available. This information-packed issue has over 60 pages of information including:

• Firebird’s Road Trip and What’s New with 2.5
• Coding Corner: Trees – Where’s the Performance?
• PostgreSQL’s tsvector: Secret Sauce for Search Engines
• The Lab: The XtraBackup Program for MySQL – Part Two
• Drizzle – A Lightweight Database for the Web
• Kontrollbase: Enterprise grade MySQL monitoring and analytics
• Creating a Twitter Mashup with MongoDB
• Introducing LucidDB

Plus the usual news and views. All of this for $4.95.  It is simply the biggest and the best issue we have ever released. Ready to sign up? Head over here to register and then you can download the new issue. Curious as to what this is all about? I just posted an online addendum to the Drizzle article in our free content section that will give you a taste of what you can expect.

Thanks to the contributors. You all did a great job and I appreciate it!

Sorry the website isn’t currently as polished as the magazine. While it doesn’t look pretty, it is functioning. And now that the magazine is out I can turn my attention to it again.  If you experience any problems let me know at editor AT osdbzine.net.

thanks,

keith

July brought the first issue of Open Source Database Magazine and it was a resounding success. Our download count has skyrocketed. I was blown away when I checked my stats after the first two days of release and there were almost three times as many downloads as I had ever had of any of the previous issues of MySQL Magazine. Thanks to those who participated by contributing articles; I couldn’t have done it without you. The feedback I have received is that the change in direction has been embraced by the open source database community.

I published the first OSDB podcast a few days after the release of the magazine. Even though it was my first attempt at podcasting I thought it went well. There are still some technical rough edges I am working on, but the discussion with Brian Aker was just incredible. If you haven’t heard it yet, you are missing a treat. The next podcast which will be released around mid-November will feature Josh Berkus of Postgres fame.

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