Date: Thu, 8. April 2010 13:52:00

MySQL users are set to receive fresh information about Oracle's road map for the open-source database during a keynote address by chief corporate architect Edward Screven at Tuesday's O'Reilly MySQL Conference Expo in Santa Clara, California.

Date: Tue, 9. December 2008 23:21:45

PC World - Michael Monty Widenius, original developer of the open-source database MySQL, put a damper on Sun Microsystems' recent release of MySQL 5.1 with his now-infamous Nov. 29 blog post trashing the company's decision to give the update a generally available designation.

Date: Mon, 14. December 2009 11:20:09

PC World - Oracle's latest commitments designed to address the European Commission's concerns regarding its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and the MySQL database are paper thin, and even if they were confirmed they wouldn't safeguard MySQL's future, said Florian Mueller, an outspoken critic of the deal, on Monday.

Date: Sun, 11. October 2009 15:06:54

mjasay writes "Former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos has written to EU Commissioner of Competition Neelie Kroes to urge speedy approval of Oracle's proposed purchase of Sun, including the open-source MySQL database. The EU has been worried that Oracle's acquisition of Sun could end up hurting competition by dampening or killing MySQL's momentum. But in his letter, Mickos separates MySQL-the-community from MySQL-the-company, arguing that Oracle's takeover cannot hurt the MySQL community: 'Those two meanings of the term "MySQL" stand in a close, mutually beneficial interaction with each other. But, most importantly, this interaction is voluntary and cannot be directly controlled by the vendor.' In a follow-up interview with CNET, Mickos indicated that he has no financial interest in the matter, but instead argues he 'couldn't live with the fact that [he's] not taking action,' and is 'motivated now by trying to help the employees still at MySQL and Sun, and by an urge to bring rational discussion to the matter.'"pa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/10/10/1556204/Mickos-Urges-EU-To-Approve-Oracles-MySQL-Takeover?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/10/10/1556204"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/10/10/1556204/Mickos-Urges-EU-To-Approve-Oracles-MySQL-Takeover?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SgbPrA2BWAVGQD_2WaNJgdubBAQ/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SgbPrA2BWAVGQD_2WaNJgdubBAQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SgbPrA2BWAVGQD_2WaNJgdubBAQ/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SgbPrA2BWAVGQD_2WaNJgdubBAQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/fbTXv0htyVk" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Tue, 16. December 2008 03:05:36

mjasay writes "Craigslist's Jeremy Zawodny reviews the progress of MySQL as a project, and discovers that through third-party forks and enhancements like Drizzle and OurDelta 'you can get a "better" MySQL than the one Sun/MySQL gives you today. For free.' Is this a good thing? On one hand it demonstrates the strong community around MySQL, but on the other, it could make it harder for Sun to fund core development on MySQL by diverting potential revenue from the core database project. Is this the fate of successful open-source companies? To become so successful as a community that they can't eke out a return as a company? If so, could anyone blame MySQL/Sun for creating its own proprietary fork in order to afford further core development?"pa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/15/1451256amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/15/1451256"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/15/1451256amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/eskKETYCf-TNx4G4Qs23DdIhT5M/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/eskKETYCf-TNx4G4Qs23DdIhT5M/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/kX3Kd8LtdDQ" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Mon, 14. December 2009 15:05:53

jamie sends in a blog post from MySQL co-founder Monty Widenius calling for help to "save MySQL from Oracle's clutches." While the US DoJ approved Oracle's purchase of Sun back in August, the European Commission has been less forthcoming. Widenius points out that Oracle has been using their customers to put pressure on the EC, and he questions Oracle's commitment to MySQL, saying their vague promises aren't good enough. He writes: "Oracle has NOT promised (as far as I know and certainly not in a legally binding manner): To keep (all of) MySQL under an open source license; Not to add closed source parts, modules or required tools; To not raise MySQL license or MySQL support prices; To release new MySQL versions in a regular and timely manner; To continue with dual licensing and always provide affordable commercial licenses to MySQL to those who needs them (to storage vendors and application vendors) or provide MySQL under a more permissive license; To develop MySQL as an Open Source project; To actively work with the community; Apply submitted patches in a timely manner; To not discriminate patches that make MySQL compete more with Oracle's other products; To ensure that MySQL is improved also in manners that make it compete even more with Oracle's main offering."pa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/12/13/1530211/Widenius-Warns-Against-MySQL-Falling-Into-Oracles-Hands?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/12/13/1530211"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/12/13/1530211/Widenius-Warns-Against-MySQL-Falling-Into-Oracles-Hands?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/r3ggv9XBzpCiN-Nq9DY369fH7a4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/r3ggv9XBzpCiN-Nq9DY369fH7a4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/r3ggv9XBzpCiN-Nq9DY369fH7a4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/r3ggv9XBzpCiN-Nq9DY369fH7a4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/epz7DCUJuEU" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Thu, 5. February 2009 13:06:48

Angry over the way Sun handled the release of MySQL 5.1, Monty Widenius has parted ways with the company and will be starting his own enterprise. Monty Widenius, the original author of the MySQL database server, has resigned from Sun Microsystems after months of protracted discussions about his career....

Date: Fri, 15. May 2009 15:04:47

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." Related to this, an anonymous reader writes that "MySQL has announced a project to refactor MySQL to be a more Drizzle-like database." Update: 05/14 20:50 GMT by T : Original headline implied that this was a project of Sun, but (thanks to the open source nature of MySQL) it's actually Monty Widenius mdash; no longer with Sun mdash; leading this effort.pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/14/1921243amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/05/14/1921243"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/14/1921243amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0vldF9JeqAUwvpv26xEx3VMYoC8/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0vldF9JeqAUwvpv26xEx3VMYoC8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0vldF9JeqAUwvpv26xEx3VMYoC8/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0vldF9JeqAUwvpv26xEx3VMYoC8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/7uLtqcQXQSg" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Thu, 9. October 2008 15:04:59

An anonymous reader writes "From Kay Arno's blog we see that David Axmark, MySQL's Co-Founder, has resigned. This comes on top of the maybe, maybe not, resignation of Monty. We saw earlier this year that Brian Aker the Director of Architecture has forked the server to create a web focused database from MySQL called Drizzle. The MySQL server has been "RC" now for a year with hundreds of bugs still listed as being active in the 5.1 version. What is going on with MySQL?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Mon, 3. October 2011 20:45:00

Oracle is making the open-source MySQL database more stable and feature-rich through a shift in development philosophy, MySQL Vice President of Engineering Tomas Ulin said during a keynote address Monday at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.