Open Query blog » edward screven http://openquery.com/blog About MySQL, Drizzle, MariaDB and more! Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:00:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Ken Jacobs leaves Oracle http://openquery.com/blog/ken-jacobs-leaves-oracle http://openquery.com/blog/ken-jacobs-leaves-oracle#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:44:14 +0000 arjen http://openquery.com/blog/?p=1183 Matt Asay writes today in Oracle loses some MySQL mojo about Ken Jacobs leaving Oracle. For me, that’s a major bummer. Ken has been a long-time visitor of the MySQL Conference and that’s where I first met him: a friendly and knowledgeable person, on database technology in general but also about MySQL. When Innobase Oy got bought by Oracle, InnoDB got placed under Ken’s leadership and did pretty well there. We’d occasionally exchange emails, and I’ve always found him to be responsive and helpful.

I think it was kinda presumed by people that the technical part of MySQL at Oracle would also reside with Ken. Obviously now, that’s not going to be the case. What that means exactly, I don’t know as I am not familiar with the other person (Edward Screven). We’ve got to know Ken over the years, so it would’ve been nice to keep going with him. Ohwell.

Now we’ll see what Edward does with it all, and how he will interact with the MySQL community. And I wonder what new adventures Ken might be off to, if any?

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