For those of you who haven’t heard, first go read this: Monty Leaves MySQL
Now, let’s play for a bit 
I think this is a very interesting turn of events that took surprisingly long to happen.
Now, what really is an interesting question to me is what will happen next?
WARNING: Speculation alert! The following is a pure interpretation from an outsider. I have no links to anyone involved in any of this, so don’t take this too seriously. I just want to see what others think here 
In the post Monty talks about setting up a new company to finish the maria storage engine v2.0.
I read a rumor somewhere that there are about 20-30 people ready to leave with him. I have no idea how many people are working on MySQL but 20-30 seems like a significant amount to me. Even half of that is quite a few
Someone half jokingly responded somewhere it would be a matter of time before we would see a MariaSQL come to life. Add Percona’s XtraDB and Drizzle to the mix and it seems like we have interesting times ahead of us!
What do you guys think? The comments are wide open for your speculqtions on this one :)!
Tags: announcements, mysql, speculatons
Gotta love Monty’s chutzpah - take a $billionfrom Sun, then take the developers and leave to do it all over again.
Well, he probably didn’t get all of those billion dollars
Granted though, I doubt he is a very poor bastard
i think the “20-30 people are ready to leave” rumor comes from monty saying that he hopes to grow monty program ab (his new company) to 10-30 people. i doubt there are that many people ready to leave sun/mysql to join him, or that he would be ready to start managing a group that large right away, but i don’t have any special insight into what is going on.
You must also consider some of the conditions in this contract with Sun/MySQL, does he have non-compete agreement? Is he allowed to communicate w/ Sun employees about hiring (usually 12-24 months period)? etc…
Hi!
Drizzle is a fork of MySQL, the rest are different distributions of MySQL with parts modified or changed out for the distribution. All of them are aiming to be a better Enterprise databases, while Drizzle is targetted at Web/Cloud. If anything the two compliment each other. MySQL can go after the old school Enterprise while Drizzle moves forward to collect new usage.
Cheers,
-Brian
I’m not worried. When there’s a buyout folks generally leave in the 6 months - 1 year time frame. It’s just the nature of it. I was worried about MySQL when releases slowed down, even though I expected there to be a slow down during the re-org. MySQL seems to be back on track with releases. AND we have Drizzle moving full speed ahead. I’m not worried about the life of MySQL.
However, when Oracle bought InnoDB I was worried. We don’t see a lot of bug fixes there. Oracle was arrogant at the MySQL conference about the users needs from InnoDB. Thankfully we have Percona to come to the rescue. This is opensource at its best.
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