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Sponsors

Diamond Sponsors

  • Fotango
  • Intel
  • Microsoft

Gold Sponsors

  • Dell Inc.
  • Hewlett Packard
  • IBM
  • Mozilla Corporation

Silver Sponsors

  • ActiveState
  • Autodesk
  • Google
  • Greenplum
  • Ingres
  • Novell, Inc.
  • NYTimes.com
  • OpSource
  • Rearden Commerce
  • SnapLogic
  • ThoughtWorks
  • Ticketmaster

Sponsors & Exhibitors

For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at the convention, contact Sharon Cordesse

For Media Partnership opportunities, please contact Avila Reese

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Databases

Target Practice: A Workshop in Tuning MySQL Queries
Jay Pipes, Community Relations Manager, North America, MySQL AB
Date: Monday, July 23, 2007
Time: 8:30AM - 12:00PM
Location:  D136
Pro PostgreSQL
Robert Treat, DBA, PostgreSQL Community
Date: Monday, July 23, 2007
Time: 1:30PM - 5:00PM
Location:  D139-140
Performance Whack-a-Mole
Josh Berkus, PostgreSQL Lead, Sun Microsystems
Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Time: 10:45AM - 11:30AM
Location:  Portland 251
MySQL Internals and Kernel Developments
Michael (Monty) Widenius, CTO & Co-founder, MySQL AB
Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Time: 11:35AM - 12:20PM
Location:  Portland 251
Landscape of Open Source Transactional Storage Engines
Vadim Tkachenko, Performance Consultant, MySQLPerformanceBlog.com
Peter Zaitsev, Co-Founder, Lead Consultant, Percona Ltd
Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Time: 1:45PM - 2:30PM
Location:  Portland 251
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Database: MySQL to PostgreSQL.
Kevin Falcone, Developer, Best Practical Solutions LLC
Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Time: 2:35PM - 3:20PM
Location:  Portland 251
Programming with SQLite
Michael Owens
Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Time: 4:30PM - 5:15PM
Location:  Portland 251
DBA Tales from the Front: from Oracle to MySQL
Ben Krug, DBA, Adapt Technologies
Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Time: 5:20PM - 6:05PM
Location:  Portland 251
Extending MySQL, Swiss Army Knife Approach
Brian Aker, Director of Architecture, MySQL AB
Date: Thursday, July 26, 2007
Time: 10:45AM - 11:30AM
Location:  F151
PostgreSQL Gems: Running Perl and Ruby Inside the Database
David Fetter, Consultant, VP Product Development, Geek Cruises
Date: Thursday, July 26, 2007
Time: 11:35AM - 12:20PM
Location:  F151