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Founder Stories: Monty Widenius, Founder of MySQL
- skrebbel 9y agoThis is written so full of admiration and superbole that it reads like a story from some ex Soviet dictator's personality cult pr department.
- TekMol 9y agoI had similar thoughts while reading the piece. Especially the statement that he "is still the best programmer at his company". One wonders if that is something he said about himself or if it is something the other coders said. Without further context, it feels pretty strange.
- justinclift 9y agoIt's a puff piece. :( He's a founder of the place publishing this article.
- skrebbel 9y agoI know. I'm allright with puff pieces. My point is I've never read a puff piece so overblown with adoration as this one, except when I read about Turkmen civil servants' official opinion of the late Türkmenbaşy (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/dec/21/1 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/dec/21/1)
- rsingireddy 9y agoHey thanks for reading, I'm the author of the piece. The original went through a couple rounds of edits since it's on the company page but PM if you want the original :)
- justinclift 9y agoCare to correct the inaccuracies? At least eg "the most popular open-source database in the world"
- redwood 9y agoHow would this be disputed?
- justinclift 9y agoSQLite (and likely BDB among others) are far more popular and widespread than MySQL installations. Literally every single Mac, iDevice, Windows 10 PC, Android phone/tablet includes SQLite. That's just for starters.
- redwood 9y agoOh I see. Popular as in number of software installs, rather than development effort, amount of data under management, amount of developer mindshare building and maintaining apps against it, that kind of thing. Fair but generally SQLite and MySQL are not considered the same class of engine so the wording could have been slightly more clear "most popular open source database server" or similar
- justinclift 9y agoAgreed. It should definitely be clarified to at least "database server". The other potential metrics you mention as well, not really sure MySQL would come out front on (m)any of them either. ;)
- redwood 9y agoWell according to DB Engines Ranking anyway
- justinclift 9y ago> > At 33, he released MySQL, the most popular open-source database in the world ... Ugh. Flat out bullshit. SQLite (and others) would like to have a word...