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MySQL founder leaves Sun
ZDNet News - News Page One — ... open development environment that would encourage outside participation and without any need of differentiation on the source code. Sun has been considering opening up the server development, but the pace has been too slow." Sun management and Widenius came to an agreement whereby Widenius would stay for three months, which turned into seven months, to assist with the MySQL development until they could find him a role within Sun. Widenius will be creating his own company called Monty Program Ab that will work on ...

The mySQL boys leaving Sun need not be a big deal
Open Source — Michael “Monty” Widenius (right), author of the original mySQL, has left the company to launch a new start-up, Monty Program AB. He joins former CEO Martin Mickos on the outside looking in. This has led to much wailing and gnashing of teeth, not just here but elsewhere in the computer press. Please excuse me if I don’t join in. For me this is a case of deja vu all over again. One of the first stories I covered here involved the acquisition of the JBOSS framework by Red Hat and the ...

Monty Widenius, MySQL Founder, Forecasts the MySQL Future [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — ... While Monty says he hopes that Oracle will put strong resources behind MySQL, he doesn't sound confident that it will. It's possible that he has a bit of bias in the matter, since his new company Monty Program Ab is focused on extending MySQL and on a branch of it, but overall his arguments sound logical, and I'm sure he stays in touch with the MySQL team closely. Meanwhile, according to The Register, at this week's MySQL Conference in Silicon Valley, people are taking the stage and ...

Monty Widenius, MySQL Founder, Forecasts the MySQL Future
OStatic blogs — ... While Monty says he hopes that Oracle will put strong resources behind MySQL, he doesn't sound confident that it will. It's possible that he has a bit of bias in the matter, since his new company Monty Program Ab is focused on extending MySQL and on a branch of it, but overall his arguments sound logical, and I'm sure he stays in touch with the MySQL team closely. Meanwhile, according to The Register, at this week's MySQL Conference in Silicon Valley, people are taking the stage and ...

Why the EU should block Oracle/Sun
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — Last week, I argued that the European Commission, the European Union's top competition authority, was wasting its time delaying Oracle's acquisition of Sun . Since then, I've heard from Henrik Ingo, the COO (chief operating officer) for Monty Program Ab , the MySQL fork headed by MySQL's founder Michael "Monty" Widenius. He has a different take on the EU's opposition to the deal, and I thought it worth sharing his viewpoint with you. First, Ingo notes that "While it's true that many use MySQL for free [under the open-source GPL license), and some even hack on ...

mySQL founders fork on the post-Oracle future
Open Source — The co-founders of mySQL have profound disagreements on the future of the open source database following Oracle’s takeover. Monty Widenius wants mySQL sold, not given to Oracle, telling reporters his Monty AB encouraged the investigation that has held up the Oracle-Sun deal. Meanwhile Marten Mickos has written the EU’s Competition Commissioner, Nellie Kroes, to let the deal go through. At issue is whether the community around mySQL can compete best against Oracle’s dominance from inside or outside the company. ...

Making a foundation a real solution to the mySQL mess
Open Source — ... mess won’t go away. It doesn’t want to go away because mySQL is very useful. The latest demonstration? Amazon’s support of the community version of the software at its EC2 cloud. Two forces are trying to keep the code from forking beyond all recognition. One force is Oracle itself. You buy a unit worth $1 billion as part of a larger deal and you don’t want it dribbling through your fingers. The other is mySQL co-founder Monty Widenius, who helped launch a group called the Open Database Alliance in ...