Locating the Real MySQL

Posted by kdawson on Monday March 30, 2009 @11:58AM from the place-your-bets dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a blog post, Patrick Galbraith, an ex-core engineer on the MySQL Server team, raises the question: "What is the official branch of MySQL?" With Monty Widenius having left Sun and forked off MySQL for MariaDB, and Brian Aker running the Drizzle fork inside of Sun, where is the official MySQL tree? Sun may own the trademark, but it looks like there is doubt as to whether they are still the maintainers of the actual codebase after their $1B acquisition of the code a year ago. Smugmug's Don MacAskhill, who is the keynote at the upcoming MySQL Conference, has commented that he is now using the Percona version of MySQL, and is no longer relying on Sun's."

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Re:Selling an open-source software business? by syousef · 2009-03-30 12:11 · Score: 5, Funny

What did Sun buy exactly? Sales and support?
A bridge!
Hello Mr Sun CEO, I have a bridge here to sell you! Best deal you'll ever make. Pinky swear.

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Will the real MySQL by altek · 2009-03-30 12:11 · Score: 5, Funny

please stand up?

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Re:Selling an open-source software business? by tsalmark · 2009-03-30 12:19 · Score: 5, Funny

For $1B I'd say it's plenty viable to sell an open source business. Buying one on the other hand may be open to debate.
Database software? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-30 13:00 · Score: 5, Funny

What, haven't you people heard of Access??