[FUG-BR] [OFF-TOPIC] MySQL - Monty Returns

[Marcello]

Not long aog, Monty Widenius (the co-creator and “father” of MySQL) left
Sun after a year of frustration trying to influence the development of
MySQL. He took several other Sun/MySQL employees with him and has formed
a new company called Monty Program AB to work on a truly open and
community centric fork of MySQL that he’s calling MariaDB which will
include the Maria storage engine (a replacement for the venerable
MyISAM). This new company will do consulting as well as MySQL/MariaDB
development for hire and work on community features as well. Monty’s
blog is a good source for keeping track of what he’s working on.

http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7342


Open Database Alliance founded

Monty Program Ab and Percona today launched the Open Database Alliance.

You can find the press release about it here.

This may be one of the most important steps in the history of MySQL and
MariaDB.



http://monty-says.blogspot.com/