MySQL Co-Founder Monty Widenius Quits Sun

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 5, 2009 @08:56AM from the good-luck-with-the-next-thing-monty dept.

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.'"

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Re:What about Drizzle? by steve.howard · 2009-02-05 09:55 · Score: 5, Informative

He's actually got a blog post on it right here: http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2008/07/what-if.html
Re:What about Drizzle? by krow · 2009-02-05 20:20 · Score: 3, Informative

Hi!
We are talking about finding a way to allow him to pull Drizzle code back into his tree. It is not a simple task though... Drizzle has been cleaned up since the fork (warnings removed, moved on to more of a C++ design, use of stdint, etc...), so he has to clean up his own tree as well before this can happen.
Cheers,
-Brian

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