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This was an interview Jack Adams did with me at the MySQL/OpenSolaris booth at FOSDEM last weekend.

Jack adams is an OpenSolaris mascotte, look around on YouTube for more funny interviews with him.

Here’s  my sort of transcript of the most important things that were said during the Q&A with Kaj Arno at FOSDEM09. If you have any questions (or corrections if you were there and think i misinterpreted) please use the comments.

It is virtually unedited, so it’s rough but I don’t have the time right now to write it all out..

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Kaj Arno – Recent developments / roadmap of MySQL

Kaj shows who he is -> VP MySQL of community relations

Non-paying customers = community

when want to pay or can pay => customer marketing steps in

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I am now at FOSDEM, volunteering at the MySQL project stand and attending sessions in between.
Today is the most important day for MySQL. At 13:15 CET there will be a talk by Kaj Arno covering recent events at Sun/MySQL.

I am here with Santo Leto from HoneySoftware at the moment and he is going to attempt live blogging that session. Internet has not been the best here so far, so keep your fingers crossed!

A few months ago I decided to attend FOSDEM 2009, a free open source conference in Brussels, just 150 kilometers from my home in Rotterdam.
A few weeks later I bumped into a call for participation on Lenz Grimmer’s blog. I signed up, thinking I could spare a few hours and it would be fun to tell other people about this product I have come to care so much about.

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