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March 4, 2008 10:30 AM PST
IBM discontinues development for MySQL storage engine, SolidDB
Some 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?
Matt Asay is general manager of the Americas and vice president of business development at Alfresco, and has nearly a decade of operational experience with commercial open source and regularly speaks and publishes on open-source business strategy. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.
