I had NO freaking idea!! Here I always thought MySQLW was named because of the My Documents, My Videos, My Pictures, My Hemorrhoids craze of Windows 95! Turns out it was named, along with MaxDBW and MariaDBW for Monty Widenius’ children! Cool! Monty, the creator of MySQL, named MySQL after his first child ‘My’. His [...]
So there appears to be a new superhero…uh…super database in town. It’s more “What is the Drizzle” instead of “Who is the Drizzle” and it looks like one of Monty Widenius’ pet projects. Drizzle is what MySQL would be with a more interactive community involvement in the design of the software itself, and had targeted [...]
I posted the other day about Michael “Monty” Widenius leaving Sun Microsystems. Open Source Release Feed has a follow up interview with him. Not much there and you can get most of the skinny on Monty’s site, Monty-says. Unless you have been living under a rock or are very new to the open source world [...]
It’s official, Michael Widenius has resigned from Sun Microsystems to pursue other things with MySQL. He’s left to work full time at his new company, Monty Program Ab. Looks like he’s going to be working on the Maria engine, a transactional storage engine for MySQL, Mariadb, a branch of the MySQL database with the Maria [...]
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