More open source departures from Sun

which acquired MySQL last year for $1 billion. Axmark's departure comes close on the heels of Monty Widenius' exit, and comes in the midst of a bad week for Sun, when its Linux distribution lead Barton George also quit Sun to join Lombardi Software. The open-source exodus from Sun sounds similar to the significant JBoss executive departures from Red Hat post-acquisition, except for one key point: at JBoss it was the business folks (primarily) that left, whereas Sun is losing MySQL's engineering executives. Even so, let's be clear: it was always going to be hard to retain the free-spirited Widenius and Axmark. Indeed, Axmark noted in his resignation: I have thought about my role at Sun and decided that I am better off in smaller organisations. I HATE all the rules that I need to follow, and I also HATE breaking them. It would... [read full story]