I apologise to those reading Planet MySQL who will see this twice, this is aimed at a different audience to my personal blog.
Rackspace and Drizzle

If you have read my last ‘Last Week in Drizzle‘ post you will know that Rackspace are no longer supporting Drizzle. They have done a fantastic job so far and have decided to pass the baton to other companies. As for the staff, they wished to redeploy us to other teams which is something I personally was not keen on. I would rather remain within the MySQL/Drizzle sphere which I would have no longer been able to do effectively inside Rackspace any more.

Drizzle itself will go on to do great things without Rackspace, there are a number of companies that announced support for Drizzle during …