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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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Holy guacamole!
This is the most outrageous news I've heard on Slashdot ALL WEEK!
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
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.
If I'd just made a billion-dollar deal for my company, I'd sure look long and hard at not working anymore.
The sun destroys everything it touches. Eventually it will implode into a black hole and devour what little shareholder value is left.
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.
...he's leaving to work on Python.
I mean, the PSF needs good, experienced developers, and, um, that's all.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Well that was just sad.
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.
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Brian Aker, who forked the Web 2.0-friendly Drizzle SQL database (and former Slashdot engineer!), remains at Sun."
I guess I can understand how you can fork a database and an engineer, I have no idea how a database actually was an engineer.
Monty was last seen boarding a ferry to France.
Why is this a surprise to anyone? It was expected from day one of the announcement. Atleast from my perspective.
isn't build a company, sell it to big guys and go into early retirement the ultimate dream of every nerd?
Monty's been working on the interesting "Maria" transactional engine (evolved from, and compatible with MyISAM), which is slated to become MySQL's future default engine.
Since they recently made a feature-complete ("no known bugs"!) release of Maria, I'm tempted to think that was his personal deadline to quit.
Josh Berkus (core PostgreSQL developer) also recently quit Sun.
I like Sun. I'm sad that they have lost these two brilliant database engineers, and I hope they go on and kick Oracle's (and that other company's) butt anyway.
you had me at #!
Go ahead, mod me off-topic
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...
Take care, Cos
She doesn't get out of bed for less than $2 million.
That's fine if it's your bed, I guess...
you had me at #!
It's worth mentioning that Jim Starkey (inventor of MVCC, etc) also quit recently. (He joined MySQL in 2006 to work on Falcon.)
So Sun has lost more database genius in 2008 than most companies ever had. :(
you had me at #!
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.
And javascript. It's pretty flexible, but I think most people would prefer something saner, like smalltalk, java, c#, etc.
Like all pain, suffering is a signal that something isn't right
Some people keep working after their first billion. Like Bill Gates who kept running Microsoft for several years after he was a billionaire.
But guys like Bill certainly don't need to keep working, so I guess they enjoy steering a big company.
C - the footgun of programming languages
The "contradiction" links to the Kaj Arno post....where's the contradiction?
If I had eyes sharp enough I'd have noticed your initials on the post, instead of telling you something you already knew. Thanks for the clarification, and it's good to know that you're still involved in Falcon. :)
you had me at #!
But seriously, Brian Aker must be a huge ATHF fan to name an sql fork "Drizzle".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Aqua_Teen_Hunger_Force_episodes
I mean, the PSF needs good, experienced developers, and, um, that's all.
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Since when does someone who codes up a partial SQL implementation get promoted to inventor status? It reminds me of a guy at work (one of those self-promoter types) telling me how he and his team "invented an XML".
Perhaps Linux inventor Linus Torvalds and Melissa inventor David Smith could chime in with their thoughts on this.
Connection connection;
String sql = "{call whatIwannaDo (?) }";
Statement stmt = connection.prepareCall(sql);
stmt.setString(1,id);
Works whether its on MySQL, Oracle, or MSSQL , assuming you have the procedure in place on all three.
Granted, I agree that all servers support the standard. There are standard method workarounds in almost all languages to help make your app DB neutral.
so many stuff are using them, that means they ARE useful ffs.
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Really, people, you need a gossip filter or something. How is this news?
Those of us still toiling at Sun are wondering "how long now", as we await the September wave of RIFs. I can only hope that my 10+ years of support experience will give me a chance to re-apply for my job with whatever new masters we may get. While I start looking for something else. I know what terrible reputations the big firms lke Accenture have for quality of work life, long hours, etc.
There is more than enough experience to be found in the Services group worldwide to open our OWN support or consulting shop and perhaps have the last laugh : )
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DELETE FROM sun WHERE name="Monty"
I think it would make sense for IBM to buy Sun. IBM gets Sun's enterprise customers and they get full control of Java (which means that they can finally open source it for real). I suspect IBM is just waiting for Sun's stock to fall to the right level.
Monty says in Finnish Computerworld that they are still looking for position inside MySQL... http://www.tietoviikko.fi/infra_docview.jsp?f_id=1408820