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MySQL Co-Founder Monty Widenius Quits Sun
BobB-nw writes "Michael 'Monty' Widenius, the original developer of the open-source MySQL database, has left Sun Microsystems and is starting his own company, Monty Program Ab, he said in a blog post Thursday. Widenius and Sun had a slightly rocky relationship since the vendor bought MySQL last year for $1 billion. In a much-discussed November blog post, he trashed Sun's decision to give MySQL 5.1 a 'generally available' designation, saying it was riddled with serious bugs.
Meanwhile, Monty Program Ab will be 'a true open-source company,' with only a small number of employees who 'strive to have fun together and share the profit we create.' The company will work on the Maria project, a storage engine Widenius and others developed, he wrote.'"
I have an odd urge to send mail to that address in your sig, if only to inquire as to how a specimen of defecated material managed to land a gig at Google in these troubled economic times.
512 MB RAM, 20 GB disk, 200 GB transfer, five datacenters. $19.95/month.
what? monty burns blocks the sun? --- excellent!
Why didn't he go all the way and name it "Monty Program's Flying Code Circus"?!
"Relational." "Rational" isn't a word that's often applied to MySQL.
So where is the niche for MySQL?
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