Fo’ Drizzle…

Brian Akers (One of the loudest voices in the MySQL world) and Michael Widenius (The original MySQL developer) have started a New MySQL fork called ‘Drizzle’. They aim to keep the development truly open source, to take a step back to simplicity, speed, and features that people actually used instead of features that a company was told they ‘needed’ in order to compete with Oracle and Microsoft… it’s a “What If” exercise to see what MySQL would be like with more active community development work.

I’m interested to see where this goes. As someone who started using MySQL in 2002 precisely BECAUSE it’s small, lightweight but more scalable than SqLite, I’m definitely in the target market here.