No, solidDB hasn't died. In fact, the fact that it's now free from IBM may actually turn it into an interesting open-source project.
But there are few, if any, near-term winners in the mess. Certainly not Solid's investors, who pumped nearly 100 million euros into the company only to sell it for (rumor has it) 20 million euros. Or so. In fact, the result was bad enough that one of Solid's venture investors went on the record to declare, "Sijoitus Solidiin ei vastannut sille asetettuja tavoitteita" ("The investment in Solid did not meet the objectives set for it."
... Read moreSome among us (myself included) once worried that IBM was joining with Oracle to besiege MySQL when it acquired SolidDB, one of MySQL's primary storage engines. It turns out, however, that IBM didn't have such nefarious plans.
In fact, it didn't (or doesn't) have plans for SolidDB at all, announcing this week that it is discontinuing development of SolidDB and migrating the project to Sourceforge.
Is this good or bad for MySQL? Probably neither, though having an orphaned open-source storage engine won't be hugely beneficial to MySQL. Maybe IBM just got bored with the project, or maybe it didn't want to lend any assistance to MySQL's new parent, Sun Microsystems. Anyone have a good read on what this means for MySQL?
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