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Drizzle is a Free Software/Open Source database management system (DBMS) that was forked from version 6.0 of the MySQL DBMS. Like MySQL, Drizzle has a client/server architecture and uses SQL as its primary command language. Drizzle is distributed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License.
Though Sun recently shed thousands of jobs, it's actually now hiring - well for at least one key position. Sun is looking for a Software Senior Staff Engineer to work on the MySQL open source Drizzle project.
MySQL father Michael - Monty - Widenius and leading MySQL architect Brian Aker spoke separately at the annual MySQL Con in Santa Clara, California, where they pitched hard their MySQL forks.
Michael "Monty" Widenius, one of two founders and main developers of MySQL leaves Sun Microsystems with several other ones. He will continue to develop MySQL independently. The main reason is disagreement with Sun's development politic that allows releases (that will be production ready) to have known serious bugs.
About a half year after big technological changes, the KOffice project has released version 2.1 of its office suite, even if it's not quite ready for everyday use.
Sometimes inbetween Christmas and New Year's Eve, the "Help MySQL" initiative was founded. This initiative, publicly supported by Monty Widenius, the co-founder of MySQL would be interesting if it wasn't somehow indecent. Let me explain.