Re: Sun Talks about MySQL

["Jonah H. Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 08:43:09AM -0400, Chander Ganesan wrote:
>  >
>  > "This version now has zero bugs," Urlocker told eWEEK.
>
>  That is pretty amusing, but I also liked this:  "Mickos said innovation will
>  move even faster now that about 100 experienced database engineers from Sun
>  will be working on MySQL development."
>
>  I guess they don't read _The Mythical Man-Month_ at Sun.

Not to rain on my MySQL/Sun bash parade, but your response is based on
the extremely poor assumption that Sun would put 100 developers on a
single project.  While Sun has certainly had its share of
software-related problems in the past, I would hope that they
understand basic software project management.  It's much more likely
that they will have teams of 6-8 people working on individual
projects.


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