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MySQL Founder Leaves Sun Microsystems; Will Work on MySQL Outside of Sun

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Widenuis was livid about the way that the MySQL 5.1 release happened which he thought was incomplete and loaded with bugs. Sun countered that Widenuis was entitled to his opinion, but in their view MySQL 5.1 was a solid release.

I've been working with SpringSource code lately, and this seems to be a common issue. If your business model depends on selling "Enterprise level support", making the user experience easy and bug-free just isn't in your interests...

MySQL historically had a very good reputation for fixing bugs and taking care of the users when they first started out, but as their focus shifted taking care of the users became less of a priority.

The weird thing is the bugs that Monty claims were 'riddling 5.1' were there for a lot longer than they should have been anyway, plenty of them predated the buyout by SUN.

Perhaps it was thought that the long list of bugs would finally get the attention they needed after the Sun buyout.

It's now been a while since the buyout and I'm sure more than one person is a little frustrated with the way things have turned out at this point; for better or for worse.

I finished a job using Spring as the core. Ugh, never again. Yes, yes, they completed the impossible feats of parsing XML and using reflection to call getters and setters. Good for them.

It is not enough to do serious work. I spent the last 6 months trying to find ways to sandbox that toy and get stuff done.

this is a very common problem that i've seen on projects, even my own. as they grow larger, you almost inevitably lose focus on the stuff that matters. i think he has every reason to be mad that they were releasing buggy versions, and i'm glad he left.

too many people get complacent when you grow, and they forget that you can't slack off just because you've gotten somewhere. the fact that you even GOT to be one of the leading database solutions in the first place should suggest that you were doing all of the right things up to that point.

i saw this happen recently in a project i was involved with. it's funny the way people just sort of "stop caring" after a while, especially about small details.

bill gates has a point when he says "nobody is forced to buy our software, and unless we improve the next version, people won't buy it. so there's a serious incentive for us to keep innovating and pushing the software forward." i'm not taking sides, but the guy has a point. get complacent, and die. note to trolls: do not digress into debate about why microsoft sucks.

I think my comment about a divorce in the making in that thread about drizzle the other day wasn't too far from the mark.

When MySQL got acquired by SUN there was a lot of speculation how long the honeymoon would last, it seems that with a fork underway and a founder gone that the honeymoon is definitely over.

Now I'm starting to get really worried because what with mysql being the M in LAMP it probably is just as important to the continued development of the web as any of those 3 other packages (with the 'p' being your scripting language of choice).

Say hello to the LAP stack. Linux, Apache, Perl/Python/PHP/PostgreSQL.

Wouldn't that be LAPP, meaning Linux, Apache, Perl/Pythong/PHP, PostgreSQL?

Technically, I think it would be Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, Perl/Python/PHP

I can't believe I was downmodded for that. :(

Funny thing is, I seem to recall that Sun engineers used to be able to hold off a release of a product until they thought it was really ready to go.

Which sounded like it really helped quality and got the team involved.

Sadly, either I heard wrong, they stopped, or they didn't implement that for MySQL.

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