Our contest to give away one of our blazingly fast Kickfire Analytic Appliances to a deserving organization is heading into the home stretch. We have already had almost 1,000 people voice their opinion and encourage everyone interested in data warehousing, business intelligence, MySQL, open source, or any other aspect of this contest to vote for their favorite semi-finalist before 5:00P PT Tuesday, December 1st. We will announce the winner on Wednesday, December 5th.
To enter the contest, we asked organizations to submit their most compelling story of “data warehouse pain.” Our esteemed judges, Curt Monash, founder of Monash Research (www.monash.com) and publisher of DBMS2, Joy Mundy, principal at the Kimball Group (www.kimballgroup.com), Peter Zaitsev, founder and chief executive officer of Percona (www.percona.com), and Robin Schumacher, formerly director of product management at Sun Microsystems™ (www.sun.com) selected the semi-finalists.
Next, the semi-finalists prepared and submitted videos of their story. As you see from the videos, some of the teams went all out with very creative productions!
I encourage you to vote. Once you’ve voted, ask your friends and colleagues to vote as well in order to build a groundswell for your favorite contestant.
You can also post the reasons behind your choice on our Facebook Fan page or reach us on Twitter @kickfire.
We have worked closely with the MySQL community leaders getting their guidance and feedback on product direction. This contest is our way of giving back. Thank you for your help and support to select our winner.
