---
title: "Fully packed SUSE Linux Expert day event in Warsaw"
publish_date: 2014-10-09
author: "MariaDB"
---

# Fully packed SUSE Linux Expert day event in Warsaw

Thanks to everybody that visited our booth at SUSE Linux Expert day in Warsaw, Poland this week!

We had a great time with [SUSE](https://www.suse.com), our Polish training partner [Compendium](http://www.compendium.pl/en/), Polish distributor [Veracomp](http://www.veracomp.pl/) and of course [IBM](http://www.ibm.com). The event was just a day after the [SUSE and MariaDB on IBM Power8](https://staging-mdb.com/news-events/press-releases/suse-and-mariadb-expand-linux-ecosystem-ibm-power8) announcement.

![SUSE Warsaw Introduction to event](/sites/default/files/pictures/Images/SUSE_Warsaw_2014-small.jpg)

We were very excited by the number of delegates who came to meet the MariaDB booth. Our event survey showed that a lot of the participants are looking for affordable open source database alternatives like MariaDB. The news that MariaDB is now the default relational database in SUSE 12 was well received.

All those surveyed entered a free prize draw to win Logitech Boombox Mobile speaker. We are delighted to announce that the winner is:

**Tomasz Rawinski at T-Mobile Polska (Deutsche Telekom)**

![Logitech Boombox](/sites/default/files/pictures/Images/Logitech-UE-Mobile-Boombox-White-Blue-2.jpg)

Tomas will be receiving his prize in the post soon.

In case you missed Anders Karlsson’s presentation on MariaDB replication, the slides are available [here](http://www.slideshare.net/MariaDB/replication-with-mariadb-at-suse-expert-day-2014-warsaw).

Thanks once again to all the participants at this packed and professional event!