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MySQL Founder Starts Open Database Alliance, Plans Refactoring

Posted by timothy on from the database-shakeup dept.

Gary Pendergast writes "Monty Widenius, the 'father' of MySQL, has created the the Open Database Alliance, with the aim of becoming the industry hub for the MySQL open source database. He wants to unify all MySQL-related development and services, providing a potential solution to the fragmentation and uncertainty facing the communities, businesses and technical experts involved with MySQL, following the news of the Oracle acquisition of Sun." Related to this, an anonymous reader writes that "MySQL has announced a project to refactor MySQL to be a more Drizzle-like database." Update: 05/14 20:50 GMT by T : Original headline implied that this was a project of Sun, but (thanks to the open source nature of MySQL) it's actually Monty Widenius — no longer with Sun — leading this effort.

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  1. Re:PostgreSQL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Where are my mod points when I need them....

  2. Re:why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Ok, so the problem with manual vacuum was resolved a long time ago. I agree they should have done it an even longer time ago, but it's done now. Time to move on with your life.