Sometimes people need a good kick up the arse, and take Widenius's post as just that; a good thing. Rather that than loads of bugs, denial and silence, that we always see from the closed source databases.
--- On Tue, 9/12/08, Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Sun's Mickos Is OK With Monty's MySQL 5.1 Rant WAS: MySQL Server > 5.1.30 has been released > To: "mysql" <mysql@lists.mysql.com> > Date: Tuesday, 9 December, 2008, 8:12 PM > http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F09% > 2F0047225&from=rss > > Sun's Mickos Is OK With Monty's MySQL 5.1 Rant > > "Back on November 29, MySQL developer Michael Widenius > trashed Sun's > decision to give MySQL 5.1 a 'generally available' > designation in a > now-infamous blog post. Widenius warned users to be > 'very cautious about > MySQL 5.1' because 'there are still many known and > unknown fatal bugs in > the new features that are still not addressed.' And now > we get Sun's > response. In an interview Monday, Marten Mickos, senior VP > of Sun's > database group, said, 'I learned over many years about > the benefits and > the painfulness of absolute transparency in open source. A > little bit of > debate never hurts. This is part of being an open-source > company. ... > People are free to blog about what they want.' > Doubtless, this will do > nothing to end the debate over whether Widenius will follow > fellow MySQL > co-founder David Axmark's lead and leave Sun." -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
