Same Bat-time, Same Bat-channel

Posted by Monty Taylor on January 11, 2010 at 10:31 AM

Friday was my last day working for Sun Microsystems, which means it was also the end of the job that started when I was hired by MySQL, Inc a little over four years ago. For those of you who didn't know me before that, it should be noted that the other than periods of time when I have started companies and worked for myself, the next longest I've ever been with one company was 10 months. I mention that as one of the few quantifiable metrics I could cite in describing what a wonderful experience it has been to work for MySQL and then Sun. The people I've worked with have been nothing short of stellar.

I will be continuing my work as a core Drizzle developer, so this blog post notwithstanding, I doubt most people will notice the change. The only real outward difference I can think of is that now that I'm not a Sun employee, I am free to comment on the merger and on what some people see as the need to save MySQL from Oracle. I don't know if I will, but at least now I can.

I would say I will miss everyone, but I imagine I will continue to see most people with about the same frequency as before. One of the wonderful things about the Open Source world is that changes in business and legal entities don't often have very much effect on the coding that we do day in and day out... so let's keep up the good work everybody! See you on IRC...

4 Comments

  1. [1]   gnarvaja
    January 11, 2010 at 12:28 PM

    Good luck on whatever you'll be doing next!

  2. [2]   jay
    January 11, 2010 at 07:18 PM

    I look forward to future updates.

  3. [3]   qthrul
    January 11, 2010 at 07:20 PM

    And... I think yours is the first OpenID comment I've used that actually, well, worked properly.

  4. [4]   Toru Maesaka
    January 13, 2010 at 10:56 PM

    > I doubt most people will notice the change. This is so true! I didn't notice a thing in the past few days. Looking forward to more updates on this blog :)
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