MySQL founder leaves Sun. “The main reason for leaving was that I am not satisfied with the way the MySQL server has been developed,” Widenuis blogged. Sun acquired MySQL last year.
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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.
“The main reason for leaving was that I am not satisfied with the way the MySQL server has been developed,” Widenuis blogged.
He added that he parted on good termes with Sun and he expects to continue to do business and work together with them. In parting Widenuis had kind words for Sun which in part were a faint echo of things he said last year during a keynote at OSCON.
“I still think that Sun was the best possible buyer for MySQL and I feel sad that things didn’t work out together. Sun has a lot of good things going on and I hope that they will continue their path to create and promote Open source. I will be available for Sun in helping them with their goals in the Open source space,” Widenuis wrote. (Source: InternetNews)