On a more concrete note, Monty also forked MySQL into MariaDB. That's probably the death of MySQL which is now mostly a trademark, we all know sitting heavily on a trademark won't save a company... right Sun? http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/MariaDB
/Casper On May 16, 6:58 pm, Jeff Grigg <[email protected]> wrote: > Slashdot article, "MySQL Founder Starts Open Database Alliance, Plans > Refactoring"http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/14/1921243 > > <quote> > 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." > </quote> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
