Open Source One

MySQL founder Monty Widenius, who left Sun Microsystems early last year, remained very  vocal throughout the long machinations leading up to Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, even mounting a letter writing campaign .  With the Sun acquisition going forward, we reached out to Monty for an interview and he was kind enough to share his thoughts with us. In this two-part interview he speaks candidly about MySQL and Sun, and we will run the second half of the long interview tomorrow. OStatic: Now that the acquisition is going through, what do you think the future of MySQL is going to be?