Today we’re celebrating Percona’s 7th anniversary. A lot has changed in these past 7 years – we have grown from a two-person outfit focused exclusively on consulting to a 100-person company with teammates in 22 different countries and 18 different states, now providing Support, Consulting, RemoteDBA, Server Development and Training services.
We also made our mark in open source software development, creating some of the most popular products for the MySQL ecosystem – Percona Toolkit, Percona Xtrabackup, Percona XtraDB Cluster, Percona Server and others. Additionally, we’re into our second year of hosting the Percona Live conference series for the MySQL community. We have grown to serve over 2,000 customers and I’m proud to say we could do it all in bootstrap mode without attracting outside investors and keeping the company owned by its employees.
So how are we celebrating our anniversary? We decided to celebrate by supporting the open source ecosystem, making donations to a number of open source initiatives that have helped us through all these years. We would not be here without you!
As such we’re supporting:
We’re happy to enjoy the growth that’s allowing us to support other projects in our ecosystem. If you have the chance I encourage you do the same. There is a tremendous amount of work going into open source software, which is made free to use, but it is by far not free to create and maintain.
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Happy Birthday!!!!
Hi!
Percona, I wish you a happy birthday! It’s been very inspiring to see you grow to become a world leading consulting company with regards to not only MySQL but website performance in general.
Peter, Vadim – I’d like to extend my congratulations to you as the “founding fathers” personally. I think you’ve been able to attract the kind of talent that really makes the difference based on the credit you earned thanks to your deep knowledge of mainly MySQL, and by sharing your thoughts and insights through public blogs. I reference many of them on a regular, if not daily basis.
Last but not least – I know Baron Schwartz isn’t with the company anymore, but I feel he made a crucial contribution to Percona’s success.
Remind me all to buy you one whenever we’ll meet again.
warm regards,
Roland.
Congradulations! I’m happy to see a successful besiness, more so when it provides open source software and supports open source software.
Percona has quite the developers team, which is not directly providing income to the company — rather costs the company some cash. It is good to see the company can support this and furthermore utilize its development for monetization.
See you soon
Shlomi
Thank you Mixa, Roland, Shlomi!
happy birthday and congratulations 🙂
You guys rock! “MySQL’s” future looks good going forward with Percona and MariaDB. Oracle can eat it.
Congratulations to you and the entire team! This is quite an accomplishment, especially without any external funding. Keep up the good work and the organic growth – you’re on the right track.
happy birthday
Go Percona! 🙂
Congratulations, and, Bravo!
Congratulations guys! Thank you for all you have done for the open source community.
I can’t wait to see where we go next 🙂