Drizzle Hits General Availability 146
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.'"
Please (Score:2, 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.
Re:Drizzle? (Score:4, 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.
Like the name. (Score:5, Funny)
I'm just glad they didn't give it some dumb, stilted name like "LibreSQL".