Current mood:	restless
Current music:	Bryan and Chris - The Linux Action Show! - Episode 26 - MP3

MySQL, etc...
Had an interesting conference with a couple of MySQL reps today. Apparently they are about to fork their 'enterprise' and 'community' editions of their popular database server. The community edition with only be released a couple of times a year, while the enterprise edition will have bug-fixes and be released about once a month. The community edition will have more experimental stuff, while the enterprise edition will have more stability and apparently bug-fixes. The two trees will be synced up once a year, and the new features will get ported to the enterprise version.

I'm not sure how well this model will work. Hopefully security and bug-fixes still get into the community edition. They said that they wouldn't release binaries but twice a year for the community edition. I hope that they didn't also mean source tarballs. It wouldn't be fun to fish through CVS to fix security problems and bugs---if this is not done right, it could come back to bite them. Currently, MySQL has quite a bit of installations on web hosts, but if the 'free' version becomes too bad, it definitely will be something that could change.

In other news, I passed the quals! I'm now officially a PhD Candidate :-)