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MySQL Founder Monty Widenius On What to Expect Next

MySQL founder Monty Widenius, who left Sun Microsystems early last year, remained very? vocal throughout the long machinations leading up to Oracle's acquisition of Sun, even mounting a letter writing campaign.? With the Sun acquisition going forward, we reached out to Monty for an interview and he was kind enough to share his thoughts with us. In this two-part interview he speaks candidly about MySQL and Sun, and we will run the second half of the long interview tomorrow.


Memcached: A Good or Bad Sign for MySQL?

Memcached, the open source caching software framework, has been gaining attention from web companies and investors. Gear6 has annnounced details of a new memcached-based product, and Schooner Information Technologies has a set of server appliances, one targeted to MySQL, and one to memcached. Memcached is a tool that's widely used to reduce query times when using databases, through caching, and there was a lot of interest in it at the recent MySQL Conference. In this post on GigaOm, Gary Orenstein analyzes the newfound interest in memcached, and ponders whether it's good or bad for MySQL.?


Great Insights From PGConf 2008

Many of the best-known PostgreSQL hackers joined together several weeks ago for the annual PGCon, a conference dedicated to all things PostgreSQL. I've finally had a chance to review some of the talks and slides from that conference, and it not only gives me confidence in what PostgreSQL can do today, but also where it is headed in the coming years. Between scaling, geographic information systems, compatibility with other databases, and configuration management, presentations at PGCon contained a wealth of information for anyone using PostgreSQL.



MySQL to Offer Proprietary Add-Ons

For many years, MySQL has been the best-known open-source relational database. Sun bought it and the company earlier this year, leading many to wonder what the business strategy would be. This week, the CEO of MySQL revealed part of that strategy -- the introduction of proprietary add-ons that will only be distributed to commercial customers.

Reaction in the open-source world has been quite negative. What does this shift mean for MySQL?



Recession: A Boon for Open Source?

Sun Microsystems executives, speaking at last week's Sun Tech Days in Hyderabad, India, were quoted as saying that a widely expected recession in the United States would boost open source, instead of negatively impacting it. They also made the point that since Sun went predominantly open source, the company has fared much better financially than it did before. I don't doubt either of these points, but there's more to say.


Open Source Telecom, Time to Embrace Web Economics

Written by Allan Leinwand, a venture partner with Panorama Capital and founder of Vyatta. He was also the CTO of Digital Island.

The use of open-source software and commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware is making a profound impression on the telecom market -- one that seems destined to follow the path blazed by web economics. To date, the telecom industry has not yet fully embraced open-source and COTS hardware, something that I believe is a fait accompli -- regardless of any course of action taken by traditional vendors.