I must admit that I’m a bit lost when people are starting to discuss during the Q&A of presentations, here at AMOOCON, Rostock (Germany). The PBX or ‘business communication’ world is a bit unknown to me, but hearing that the Open Source solutions are market leader in North America came as a surprise. 88% of this share is Asterisk. This fact was for me the most remarkable thing to remember from Mark Spencer’s keynote.

Jim Van Meggelen talked about high availability in setups using PBX. It’s more an ongoing exercise using Linux Heartbeat, patching cables and other stuff. The database part is tricky, he mentioned, but I’ve commented that moving this out and using MySQL Cluster could solve this. Replication would however be a better because it is easier. Talking to Tim Panton I agreed that MySQL Cluster would add more complexity.

Lenz Grimmer gave an excellent overview on how to achieve (near) high availability using MySQL. Pity his talk collided with the lunch being served in the corridors. At 16:15 I’m giving my MySQL Cluster talk in 30 minutes. Trying to make people warm using it more!