MySQL's Monty throws in the towel

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Feb 5, 2009 4:55 PM EDT
Tectonic; By Alastair Otter
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Monty Widenius, the main author of the original MySQL database and a founder of the MySQL AB company, has finally left Sun Microsystems following a falling out with Sun over the status of MySQL 5.1. We reported last year that Widenius was unhappy with the release of MySQL and had told Sun that he was planning to leave the company. Now he has finally announced on his blog that he has done that and has established a new business, called Monty Program Ab.

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