BooHoo MySql

http://blog.endpoint.com/2009/12/live-by-sword-die-by-sword.html

I think this post says it best. Monty is a cry baby. They Sold Mysql for a $Billion, and made a lot of bad business decisions that in the end came back to bite them in the ass. Clearly not a good steward of Mysql to begin with, and now he's complaining that someone else might put a kabosh on the whole party.

They certainly should have bought InnoDB and SleepyCat before Oracle did and cut off their air supply. That's when I first suspected it was over. Though in theory they could build their own MVCC storage engine, so not a totally fatal blow.

Selling to Sun might not have been the best idea... If you squint your eyes you could see the logic.. Do exactly the same thing that Oracle is now executing on.. A complete Enterprise Services stack from Hardware to OS to DB to App server (F*ck App servers BTW).



"Help secure the future development"? Sorry, but that ship has sailed. Specifically, when MySQL was sold to Sun. There were many other missed opportunities over the years to keep MySQL as a good open source project. Some of the missteps:

• Bringing in venture capitalists
• Selling to Sun instead of making an IPO (Initial Public Offering)
• Failing to check on the long-term health of Sun before selling to them
• Choosing the proprietary dual-licensing route
• Making the documentation have a restricted license
• Failing to acquire InnoDB (which instead was bought by Oracle)
• Failing to acquire SleepyCat (which was instead bought by Oracle)
• Spreading FUD about the dual license and twisting the GPL in novel and dubious ways