There has been speculation for the last couple of month that Monty Widenius (can you see the “Wild Genius”) has resigned from Sun Microsystems. And unfortunately the rumours are true.
After a fallout over the status of MySQL 5.1 Monty has finally left the company.
Extract from Monty’s personal blog :
In this case, the rumors had some elements of truth to them. I had told management that I thus would be submitting my resignation immediately as I strongly believed that the 5.1 release was not ready and that those problems needed to be fixed before it went GA. This action, together with other peoples´ efforts, did have the wanted effect and I made an agreement with Sun´s upper management to not initiate my resignation but instead stay around for three more months to help Sun work out things in MySQL Development and also give Sun a chance to create an optimal role for me within Sun.
This just makes me wonder if MySQL as a product is starting to slip a bit, and that the quality of the product may be in danger.
You can read more about Monty’s resignation on his blog here.