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mySQL founders fork on the post-Oracle future

The co-founders of mySQL have profound disagreements on the future of the open source database following Oracle's takeover. Monty Widenius wants mySQL sold, not given to Oracle, telling reporters his Monty AB encouraged the investigation that has held up the Oracle-Sun deal. Meanwhile Marten...

Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Monty Widenius, Monty, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-10-20

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Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development

You really believe that?Look at Red Hat. $5.1 Bln market cap and they're not making *any* money with free software? There is plenty of money out there for consulting services and support. Just ask IBM.Proprietary software is not religion.The problem with Sun was that they couldn't commit either...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Websters, MySQL, GPL, Stallman

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Europe can stick a fork where its mouth is

Problem with your thinking...Sun owns the copyright. That means that they can rebrand the license. If you fork it, it is GPL forever. Thus you are definitely loosing out.Your argument would have made sense if Sun would have said, "hey we are going to release this under the Apache license."...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, MySQL, mouth, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

Frugal Tech Show: Ubuntu, Swine Flu, Windows 7, MariaDB and MySQL

Monty Program AB is the home of MariaDB, a fork of the MySQL project by the original founders. Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, the effect of Twitter on Swine Flu news dissemination, Windows XP compatibility/virtualization in Windows 7,...

Tags: Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows 7, MySQL, Founder, Monty Program AB, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-27

Is MySQL done under Oracle or is there a fork in its future?

With Oracle acquiring Sun Microsystems, it also acquires MySQL, the poster child for open-source applications. (Not to mention Solaris, which Sun says is a larger Linux distribution than Red Hat.) Vivek Ranadive, CEO of Tibco Software, says the term "Oracle and open source has always been an...

Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-04-23

Kickfire: Released for all the right reasons, but with the worst timing?

Kickfire's hardware-accelerated MySQL appliance blows the doors off monster Oracle database servers in equivalent TPC-H benchmarks in a tiny fraction of the cost, space, storage and power usage.  Last week, during their press briefings the future of the company looked bright indeed. There's only one...

Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Kickfire, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-21

CRIKEY! He can swallow whole companies! But not communities.

Boy, what a big beautiful snake he is, mates. He eats multi-billion dollar companies with all their assets, WHOLE. But even big old  Constrictus Siliconvallis cannot squeeze the Open Source community. So, suffice to say, the Sun Microsystems story didn't end the way...

Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., JCP, Programming Languages, Java, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-20

Insubordinate or honest? What should Sun do about Monty?

Matt Asay chimes in on Monty's reaction to MySQL 5.1. Calling it an "insubordinate rant," Asay criticizes Monty Widenius for his post saying that MySQL adopters should be "very cautious" about switching to MySQL 5.1 for a number of reasons, and says that Widenius ought to leave Sun. ...

Tags: MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-12-10

Sun vs. MySQL: the Widenius theses

Sun vs. MySQL: the Widenius thesesNow they turn on each other?Boy, the Sun and MySql folks are taking out their AK47 and drawing up a circle. The order is given: "Fire! Let's get these sons of *****!!!" They are blasting each other off in front of the public eyes. FOSS...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Sun Microsystems Inc., MySQL

Discussion threads 2008-12-08

The Importance of Dissent

Word is going around that Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL, is parting ways with Sun. Matt Asay blogs about it and says it's a good thing Widenius is taking his dissent on the road: At this point, however, Monty has done the right thing with his dissent. He has...

Tags: MySQL, Arjen, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-09-05