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April 01, 2008 | Comments: (0)

Dolphins Invade Sun Campus!

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In the grand tradition of April Fool's stunts at Sun, the MySQL team decided to drape the Sun Menlo Park campus with inflatable pink and blue MySQL Dolphins!

Marketing communications guru Steve Curry came up with the idea and we assembled a crackerjack team of local MySQLers to inflate 500+ dolphins late into the evening, with one dolphin for every member of Sun's Database Technology Group. Then we put on our all-black ninja wear (complete with Groucho disguise glasses) and we split up into teams to strategically place dolphins all around the Menlo Park campus well into the early hours of the morning. We also sent a crew to put more dolphins out at the Santa Clara campus. Think of it as a Christo performance art project executed on an open source budget and you'll get an idea of what we were trying to achieve. We put a heavy concentration of Dolphins around Building 10 in Menlo Park and through to the Cafeteria and the Executive Briefing Center.

I've posted some photos at PicasaWeb and some video at YouTube.

Note: No actual dolphins were harmed in this April Fool's day stunt. Some alcohol may have been consumed along the way, but it's all become a little fuzzy now... Thanks to all those who stayed up so late to make this happen.

Update: Thanks to many folks who sent me photos today from Menlo Park and Santa Clara, which I've updated on PicasaWeb. I guess our partaking in a Sun tradition like this means we are getting more and more integrated into the company. And we're still operating in our own MySQL style. Cool.

Posted by Zack Urlocker on April 1, 2008 06:05 AM

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