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Monty Widenius (MySQL founder) has left Sun

04 Feb Posted by aross in News, MySQL
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Things didn't work out for a number of people at Sun since the aquisition of MySQL (for $1B). Monty Widenius is the most recent to leave Sun.

Quotes from Monty's blog explain his motivations:

"I strongly believed that the 5.1 release was not ready and that those problems needed to be fixed before it went GA"

"The main reason for leaving was that I am not satisfied with the way the MySQL server has been developed"

"In particular I would have like to see the server development to be moved to a true open development environment that would encourage outside participation and without any need of differentiation on the source code"

"I still think that Sun was the best possible buyer for MySQL and I feel sad that things didn't work out together"

See more here:
http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/02/time-to-move-on.html

More insightful coverage here on Matt Asay's blog:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10157183-16.html

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