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Five Questions With Michael Widenius

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the wouldn't-be-open-source-without-drama dept.

volume4 writes "With two MySQL execs leaving Sun in the last week, the internet is buzzing about what is going on at Sun, what is the future of MySQL and what lies ahead for Michael Widenius. Over at Open Source Release Feed, Widenius spoke candidly regarding his split from Sun, the future of MySQL, Monty Program AB, and the open source ecosystem in general."

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  1. Re:Politics as usual by von_rick · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think this thread is about 5 question for MW that he has already answered :)

    Back to what you said: I think it was mostly the management and less of politics. The role of management is usually to dictate terms that they have absolutely no clue about. A marketing exec managing a SQL functionalities is gonna make the team go sour given enough time.

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