It is always hard to write these type of posts. It has been a
busy ten months for me in the MySQL Community Team and sadly, all
too soon it seems, the world changes and I find myself moving to
the other side of the fence. As of August 14th, I will no longer
be with Sun Microsystems.
Okay, before you get any conspiracy theories, the reasons are
simple and personal. I am moving on to see what I can do to found
my own startup completely unrelated to developing databases
though I fully intend to use MySQL in the near future and if
possible, all my life. Sometimes in life you get opportunities
given to you which are rare and if you don't jump then regret is
all you have, and that is something I refuse to live with.
As for MySQL, I am extremely sad to leave some of the coolest,
brightest and most fun people in the world (and by this I mean
all of the MySQL and Drizzle folks at Sun). I never thought an
extrovert like myself …
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