MySQL Co-Founder Monty Widenius Quits Sun 140
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.'"
Re:Futt Bucked (Score:3, Informative)
With an experienced HR dept. you'll usually see a severability clause wherein, invalidating a contract in part does not invalidate the contract. Most of the time a company silly enough to want you to sign a non-compete IN CALIFORNIA is either too big to have a different process for every state, or too small (read: naive) to include severability, or has lumped it in with your employment contract (which will contain a severability clause). However, it's unenforceable in any case IN CALIFORNIA (probably some other states too).
Re:What about Drizzle? (Score:5, Informative)
Martin Mickos going too! (Score:1, Informative)
Martin Mickos, the old CEO and Current Sun Database Technology Group SVP is leaving too.
Damn! He will be missed.
Re:Sounds like a plan (Score:3, Informative)
I hadn't heard that (don't follow MySQL issues, even though I work at Sun) but it makes sense. JIS has been open sourcing other key software products (Solaris, Java), claiming that this would help him (as you say) sell hardware and services. He had to overcome a lot of resistance and skepticism to do this. He'd look really dumb if he allowed one prominent new acquisition to deviate from this model.
Re:Thank you, Monty. (Score:3, Informative)
> So where is the niche for MySQL?
See for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software_(PHP)#Data_storage [wikipedia.org]
Re:What about Drizzle? (Score:4, 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
Re:Thank you, Monty. (Score:2, Informative)
This is TOTAL bullshit!
A READ ONLY(or mostly like Slashdot) website uses a front end cache like Squid or Varnish. Database query performance doesn't matter. Slashdot could perform exellent with just Microsoft Access as the database backend.
If you need some more writing like social sites as Facebook or MyYearBook you use a mid level cache like Memcached or OScache. And if you need full text search you use Lucene/SOLR or Xaphian.
And while Facebook uses over 1800 MySQL servers MyYearBook who has about 1/10th of the amount users Facebook has, it runs on only 17 PostgreSQL servers.