MySQL.com down

As some of you may have read we recently had an outage with MySQL.com we're now back up and in better shape. Due to this I'm now back in Sweden for a couple of weeks hacking a bit, hopefully I'll be able to post some fancy diagrams here at some point around it.

So what's happened to be due to the acquisition

As you may know Sun Microsystems has acquired MySQL as of Q1 this year. The first thing that came to my mind because of this was; Do I have a job? Do I get to stay in the US? If not can I work in Sweden?

So last week I received an offer letter from Sun, I get to stay 9 months and gets a decent raise on top of it.

So where does this leave me? Surely I might be out of a job in 9 months or I may find something within or outside Sun. Overall I think it's exiting to be a part of a merge of two opensource companies but I'm sad about loosing the general MySQL spirit that has been with us for so long. Hopefully we'll be able to affect Sun with our spirit and create something great together.

Dinner with the Flipper team

Walking to the office

No I don't work at Apple I just happens to go by them on my way to the MySQL office.

Hats at the office

This is what we do at the MySQL office.

Work and daycare combined

Poker in the office

So the support team is here this week so they decided to have a poker night, not that I'm playing but I felt like joining, get to know some of the people

Moving 12 662 kilometers

As posted earlier I got my Visa approved for working in the United States, it hasn't been decided when yet, I'm still awaiting some papers and then I'll go for an interview at the American embassy in Stockholm, Sweden. We'll see how it goes from there.

MySQL sports day

Someone came up with the idea that MySQL should have a sportsday so the Uppsala office went for bowling luckely I won! This some of my competators.