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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?"

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  1. Re:That's the power of the open source license. by vandan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Theoretically, yes you can fork the code. But there are broader issues than the legal ability to fork.

    This has put a huge question-mark over MySQL's long-term viability. For a fork to be viable, you need a critical mass of developers. But we've seen 2 key ( founding ) developers leave, and Oracle buy InnoDB.

    If Sun bought MySQL to further the project, then where is the evidence that this is happening?

    If Oracle bought InnoDB to further the project, then where is the evidence that this is happening?

    Of course you could argue that neither company is obliged to do anything. But alternatively you could argue that both companies have behaved in an explicitly anti-competitive way. This is itself is of course no surprise to anyone other than the US justice department.