On Tue, May 19, 2009 08:49, Kenneth Burgener wrote: > Thank you for that good explanation. > > I was researching more about this issue and it appears that there are > already forks of MySQL out there. I found a product called "Drizzle" > which is a fork of the MySQL 6 code.
Dan Hanks and I attended the MySQL conference in San Jose. The first day of the conference was the day the acquisition was announced. Coincidentally, we were invited to the executive briefing and got some important background information regarding MySQL, Sun, and Oracle. The truth is, no one knows what will happen. And that probably includes Oracle executives. I got the impression that MySQL was not a major item of discussion, and in fact was hardly mentioned at all. The main focus was Java and some of the larger aspects of the Sun product base. Drizzle is a very interesting project. We attended several Drizzle presentations. For those of you who remember Jay Pipes (he came out last year), he is a lead developer on this project. Drizzle is very exciting, but not from a 'fork' of MySQL perspective. It offers some very specific technical advantages. Keep in mind that Drizzle is a Sun driven project. Nearly everyone working on it is a Sun employee. In my opinion (and everyone has an opinion on this), I'd be more worried about Oracle killing tiny projects at Sun like Drizzle than killing business producing products like MySQL. -Ryan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
