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Percona welcomes Stewart Smith

May 16, 2011
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Vadim Tkachenko
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Percona is pleased to welcome Stewart Smith to the team. Stewart does not need an extended introduction for MySQL Community, but just in case: Stewart has a long history with both the MySQL and Drizzle code bases. He’s been one of the core Drizzle developers since the start of the project (working on Drizzle for Sun and then Rackspace), he maintains HailDB and previously worked for MySQL (and then Sun) on MySQL Cluster (NDB).

Stewart joins Percona to lead our development team and will take lead role in both Percona Server and Percona XtraBackup products. You can certainly expect more mutual exchange of features and ideas between Drizzle, Percona Server, XtraDB and XtraBackup to make all products stronger.

If you want to hear more about about Drizzle and Percona Server you are welcome to attend Percona Live in New York, on May, 26th, 2011 where Stewart will present “Drizzle 7, GA and Supported: Current & Future Features”. There you will meet the Percona team and have chance to learn about Percona Server, XtraBackup and Drizzle first hand from our experts.

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Nilnandan Joshi
Nilnandan Joshi
15 years ago

Congrats to both Stewart and Percona

iPhone to Mac
iPhone to Mac
15 years ago

Great. like it.

Mark Callaghan
Mark Callaghan
15 years ago

Welcome. I am sure we will be talking soon.

Shlomi Noach
Shlomi Noach
15 years ago

Congratulations!

David Shrewsbury
David Shrewsbury
15 years ago

Good news for both Percona and Stewart. Congrats!

LinuxJedi: Disturbing… very disturbing.

Stephen S. Musoke
Stephen S. Musoke
15 years ago

Now Percona is becoming the place to go for everything that is lacking in MySQL.

Keep up the good work guys. Watch out, Oracle may want to buy u for $1bn …..

LinuxJedi
LinuxJedi
15 years ago

Congrats to both Stewart and Percona!

Henrik: does he have to wear anything else? Or just a tie?

Henrik Ingo
Henrik Ingo
15 years ago

Hey, Congratulations Stewart. Did they tell you managers have to wear a tie?

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Enough.

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