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MySQL Founder Monty Quits Sun (Or Not)

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the who-didn't-predict-that dept.

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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  1. Shoot by XanC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If I'd just made a billion-dollar deal for my company, I'd sure look long and hard at not working anymore.

  2. no golden handcuffs ? by KernelMuncher · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am surprised Sun didn't tie Monty to the company with golden handcuffs (deferred compensation). His departure could have a negative effect on customer loyalty. And it sure does look bad for the founder to be leaving so quickly.

    1. Re:no golden handcuffs ? by Jherek+Carnelian · · Score: 4, Insightful

      They probably had a 9-month contract to keep him around and now the 9 months are up.
      It is extremely common for the previous owner/ceo to bail out in a year or so after their company is acquired.

  3. Re:Basic astronomy ! by east+coast · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually, it's going to turn into a white dwarf in most likeliness.

    But I understand where you're coming from.

    --
    Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
  4. Re:Please use this thread to do the following: by LWATCDR · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now now. PHP is a pain but a dang useful pain. Just like MySQL.

    PHP and MySQL are both good but not great tools. What makes them useful is all the stuff that works with them.
    I would drop MySQL in a second for Postgres except that too many CMS and other packages use it. The same is true of PHP.

    There happy now?

    --
    See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
  5. Well, I would do the same by eatfastnoodle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    isn't build a company, sell it to big guys and go into early retirement the ultimate dream of every nerd?

  6. Re:Please use this thread to do the following: by Rich0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Couldn't agree more. My other big pet peeve is applications that are database-specific (which obviously is related to the fact that app designers don't have much choice in the matter). I don't want to install my own MSSQL server for the sake of the one application that can't run on my company's enterprise scale server farm running some other RDBMS. I don't want to pick a different application that doesn't meet my user's needs simply because it handles the other RDBMS.

    Oh, and if we actually had some standards perhaps there would also be a chance that every time Oracle releaes a new software releaes it wouldn't break half the applications I manage...