MySQL Founder Monty Quits Sun (Or Not)

Paul Boutin writes "A reliable source tells Valleywag that MySQL inventor Michael Widenius, better known as Monty, has resigned from Sun. Sun bought Monty's MySQL company in a billion-dollar deal last January. Brian Aker, who forked the Web 2.0-friendly Drizzle SQL database (and former Slashdot engineer!), remains at Sun." Kaj Arnö and Sheeri Cabral share their thoughts.

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Please use this thread to do the following:

[Anonymous Coward]

1. Tell us how great your database is, (ie. postgres, mssql server, oracle etc..)

2. Tell us how shitty mysql is in your eyes.

3. Tell us how mysql "sold out"

So everything under this thread can be modded as "redundant"

Thank You.

Re:Please use this thread to do the following:

[DanWS6]

4. For extra credit tie into your rant how terrible you believe PHP is and how xyz is so much better.

Re:Please use this thread to do the following:

[DanWS6]

No.

Re:Please use this thread to do the following:

[LWATCDR]

Okay Mr. Cranky Pants.

Re:Please use this thread to do the following:

[danieltdp]

Yes. A 'reduntant' mod.

Re:Please use this thread to do the following:

[discogravy]

lol ur still using xyz?

Basic astronomy !

[assemblerex]

The sun destroys everything it touches. Eventually it will implode into a black hole and devour what little shareholder value is left.

Re:Basic astronomy !

[bondjamesbond]

Aw man... I'm dreading the day that the sun expands and engulfs us.

Please tell me...

[pushing-robot]

...he's leaving to work on Python.

I mean, the PSF needs good, experienced developers, and, um, that's all.

Re:Please tell me...

[Just Some Guy]

I mean, the PSF needs good, experienced developers, and, um, that's all.

So you'd inflict them with the guy who congealed MySQL, of all things? What'd they ever do to you?

Re:Please tell me...

[styrotech]

Yeah I got it, but... _Monty_ ? shouldn't that be __Monty__(self) ?

Is it still MySQL?

[peterdaly]

With the founder leaving, the name MySQL no longer fits.

Next slashdot poll...

MySQL's new name should be:
1. TheirSQL
2. SunSQL
3. JavaSQL
4. CowboynealSQL

I vote for #4.

Re:Is it still MySQL?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sun N1 iPlanet Java System ONE database Enterprise Edition (R)

Monty on the Run

[TheModelEskimo]

Monty was last seen boarding a ferry to France.

Re:Well, I would do the same

[eln]

Well no, the ultimate dream of every nerd is to have a threesome with Jessica Alba and Natalie Portman (petrified!) with hot grits down their pants, but I'm sure the retiring early thing is a close second.

Re:Well, I would do the same

[mr_mischief]

You mean besides hiring the guys who beat him up in high school to mow his 16-acre lawn?

Re:Shoot

[sm62704]

Posting at slashdot, Yoda is.

Re:Shoot

[Anonymous Coward]

Nah, twitter would have called them "$un".

Re:Well, I would do the same

[AioKits]

I'm still researching to see if my ultimate dream is even legal in this state.

Re:interesting timing

[Sun Chi]

You can use "that other company's" name. I mean, we are talking about Microsoft here not Lord Voldemort, right?

Re:Well, I would do the same

[eatfastnoodle]

well, I'm very strong physically, for a nerd

Re:FUD (no way)

[russotto]

It looks like BS, guys. According to the company LDAP DB this person is still here :-) Sounds like a typical case of FUD, which works as you can see from the comments..

Did you refresh your cache?

Re:Chrome Users: new security flaw found

[claytonjr]

That's already been fixed in the Chromium codebase, r1677, but the latest download seems to be r1583. If I were the Chrome team, I'd be in more of a hurry to get this particular fix out there.

If you were the Chrome team, You'd be a lot of people!

Article Summary

[nathanh]

DELETE FROM sun WHERE name="Monty"