Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

David Axmark Resigns From Sun

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-this-job-and-shove-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "From Kay Arno's blog we see that David Axmark, MySQL's Co-Founder, has resigned. This comes on top of the maybe, maybe not, resignation of Monty. We saw earlier this year that Brian Aker, the Director of Architecture, has forked the server to create a web-focused database from MySQL called Drizzle. The MySQL server has been 'RC' now for a year with hundreds of bugs still listed as being active in the 5.1 version. What is going on with MySQL?"

13 of 229 comments (clear)

  1. Huh ... by ScrewMaster · · Score: 2, Funny

    David Axmark Resigns From Sun

    So, he gets the ax because somebody missed the mark.

    --
    The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
    1. Re:Huh ... by OldManAndTheC++ · · Score: 5, Funny

      So, he gets the ax because somebody missed the mark.

      Never fear, this is a minor setback for him. I hear he's already writing a book about what he will do in the next act of his career.

      Title: "My Sequel"

      --
      Soylent Green is peoplicious!
  2. Re:How long... by Forty+Two+Tenfold · · Score: 5, Funny

    About 4.5 billion years?

    --
    Upward mobility is a slippery slope - the higher you climb the more you show your ass.
  3. Re:MySQL sucks by The+Bungi · · Score: 2, Funny

    to one as large as 900MB

    Is that what powers your HTML applications?

  4. Drizzle... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    For shizzle!

  5. Re:How long... by russlar · · Score: 5, Funny

    About 4.5 billion years?

    Well played, sir. Well played.

    --
    Anybody want my mod points?
  6. Noooooo!!!!!!!! by Metroid72 · · Score: 2, Funny

    David, don't quit in this market.
    Unemployment is rampant and you'll likely be lowballed for your new job.

  7. Re:How long... by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 4, Funny

    That won't actually happen as they should be bought up very soon. The only question is by who? Oracle, HP, IBM or one of the hardware giants they rebrand and resell?

    The way things have been going the last few weeks, my bet is on the United States Treasury Department.

  8. Re:MySQL sucks by mooreti1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    MySQL sucks

    And your post, like my response, is pointless.

    --
    Oh, for the days when sig's didn't have to be cute...hey, wait a sec.
  9. Re:MySQL sucks by raju1kabir · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know! And he's ridiculous on the other end of the scale too. 200KB? Gimme a break. I've worked with microdatabases as small as 5 bits.

    --
    "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -- GBS
  10. Re:MySQL sucks by guyminuslife · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's not a microdatabase unless it's stored in microbits. Anything that takes up a whole bit or more is way too big.

    --
    I don't believe in time. It's a grand conspiracy designed to sell watches.
  11. Re:That's the power of the open source license. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why fork it? Just let it die.

    There is a serious, open source, Object Relational DBMS available.

  12. Re:MySQL sucks by not+already+in+use · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ohhh, 2.5 TB! Gimme a break.

    I have a 100 TB database stored in CSV format, maintained via Excel and accessed through IIS using classic ASP.

    So put that in your pipe and smoke it!

    --
    Similes are like metaphors