Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Drizzle Hits General Availability

Posted by timothy on from the general-availability-turns-up-face-in-wonder dept.

snydeq writes "MySQL fork Drizzle has been released for general availability, giving companies a viable alternative to Oracle-owned MySQL, InfoWorld reports. 'Organizations that have been seeking a less-expensive alternative to Oracle's brand of MySQL — or a variant devoid of feature bloat — now have an option that Drizzle's creators deem ready to package in Linux distributions.'"

3 of 146 comments (clear)

  1. Please by gad_zuki! · · Score: 1, Funny

    Please name open source projects better. "Hey boss, lets build all these sites on top of Drizzle."

    Maybe some high profile OSS guys can help fund or start some kind of OSS naming service.

  2. Re:Drizzle? by discord5 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Really? Drizzle? That was the best they could do for a name of the new project?

    This was their second choice. The first wanted to call it GonorrheaDB, but the development team agreed that they should only use that name in case Twitter was interested in using it as a backend.

  3. Like the name. by wcrowe · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm just glad they didn't give it some dumb, stilted name like "LibreSQL".

    --
    Proverbs 21:19