Five Questions With Michael Widenius 71
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."
Re:English is Author's Second Language? (Score:4, Informative)
Am I being picky today or is English the author's second language?
Yes it is, iirc he's from Finland.
Five Questions... (Score:2, Informative)
...three of which were answered "See my blog". Article rated -1 uninformative.
Re:Good he could sacrifice a good 30 seconds (Score:3, Informative)
I could go on for ages and ages on this stuff.
You could, but it would be a big fat waste of time, because thousands of people would still use LAMPs for the simple fact that the software costs nothing so hosting is readily available, and there are tons of working content management systems available for free to run on top of them, and by the way numerous commercial sites are doing brisk business with them. So what if they don't fit the needs of HP or Xerox?
Most of your complaints are about defaults. That's dumb. I mean, the defaults are dumb, but you're still a whiner.