SPARC Meeting - (S)un (P)rofessionals' (A)ssociation of (R)ichmond (C)omputer users
DATE: Thursday, April 24th, 2008
TIME: 4:00 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. (note: our speaker will be slightly delayed)
MEETING SPONSOR - ***Alliance Technology Group (ATG)***

REFRESHMENTS, DOOR PRIZES, NETWORKING, and VALUABLE INFORMATION!

April's Topic: OnDemand: MySQL for Online Applications

MySQL has become the de-facto standard for high-traffic web sites because of its high performance, stability and ease of use. This is true for internal Enterprise systems designed for sharing mission critical information in large organizations and even more so for Web 2.0 companies basing their entire revenue stream on continuous online availability.

Learn how to harness the power of the MySQL server in order to provide the best High Availability and Scalability solutions for today's online applications.

In this briefing we will explore:

With Sun's recent acquisition of MySQL, many customers are taking a fresh look a this exciting technology.

Our speaker, Craig Sylvester is a Systems Engineer for Sun Microsystems specializing in MySQL and supporting Federal accounts and the Southeast US. He brings over 15 years technical experience supporting sales into the Federal market. His extensive database experience comes from 8 years at Informix software as a consultant and pre-sales engineer and at Netezza as a support/sales engineer. Prior to getting into sales, Craig spent 6 years as a software developer supporting Federal and commercial accounts.

LOCATION: Genworth Financial in Building 4 (old 6630 West Broad St.) on the sixth floor (Boundaryless Room).  Genworth Financial is located on West Broad Street in the Brookfield Office Park. After turning at the light on Broad Street and entering the Brookfield Complex...you should stay in the left lane and turn left at the stop sign.  Follow the road around past the Sheraton to Building 4 toward the back of the campus. Turn left for Visitor Parking.  Additional parking is located on the far side of the building as well.  Please enter at the front main entrance.

For directions to 6630 West Broad St. go to the following URL:

http://maps.yahoo.com/py/ddResults.py?Pyt=Tmap&tarname=&tardesc=&tarhash=&taraddr=6630+West+Broad+St&tarcsz=Richmond,+VA+23230-1702&a mp;newtcountry=us&newcountry=us&doit=1

RSVP: Please send an email RSVP at RSVP@RichmondSparc.com. You can also RSVP via the web site. We need to have a list of attendees for the Security Guards at Genworth Financial. THANKS!

For additional information about the Richmond SPARC Users Group, please visit http://www.RichmondSparc.com/. We hope to see you there!