Date: 2005-12-15 12:16 Subject: King Kong and MySQL... Security: Public

So what's the connection between the newly released King Kong movie by Peter Jackson, and MySQL?

The answer is Weta Digital, who did the special effects of this movie, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Narnia, I Robot, and others. Weta uses MySQL to track its "assets" (hundreds of millions of files) across thousands of machines during productions, and for many other tasks.

Milton Ngan, CTO at Weta, is an excellent speaker and he has agreed to do the closing keynote at our MySQL Users Conference. He'll talk about how Weta uses MySQL, and of course (and that's why you'll all want to hang around on Thursday afternoon!) show off some of the movie magic!