Jacob Kaplan-Moss: sun

Bookmarks

Monty says: Oops, we did it again (MySQL 5.1 released as GA with crashing bugs)

This is just nuts: something stamped final should not be this full of fail. Monty's got a great roundup of what went wrong, and as you might expect it's the classic case of letting suits and marketing schedules run software release. I thought Open Source was supposed to put the power back in the hands of the technocrats…

(bugs, database, fail, mysql, quality, releases, software, sun, wtf)

Sun acquires MySQL

Wow. This might actually be a good move for MySQL, but it certainly puts Sun's support of PostgreSQL in jepordy, which is a shame.

(acquisition, database, mysql, sun)

Sun OpenID Non-Assertion Covenant

More companies need to start doing this. Software patents *can* work, but the patent office allows them to be too powerful. Smart companies like Sun are routing around the damage and allowing communities to make use of important technology.

(openid, patents, software, softwarepatents, standards, sun)