MySQL Users, Start Your Engines, Engines, Engines.

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COPYRIGHT 2006 Ziff Davis Media Inc.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Yes, befitting tradition, MySQL cofounder Monty Widenius once again brought vodka chocolates to the MySQL Users Conference here, apparently ever-committed to shocking sensitive U.S. palates with chocolate-swathed booze.

I didn't hit him up for any Russian confections during the State of the Dolphin keynote. I was too busy tapping my foot, waiting for the MySQL version of "Developers, developers, developers!!" Indeed, why weren't Widenius and cofounder David Axmark dancing on stage, punching the air and crying, "Engines, engines, engines!"?

They should have been. For Pete's sake, the company has danced with the devil--aka Oracle--and come out of it no, not gutted, as many (including moi, your loyal database editor) feared would happen after Redwood Shores swallowed the MySQL 5.0-crucial storage engines InnoDB and Berkeley DB.

No, not gutted; on the contrary, replete, with the internal Falcon transactional storage engine on its way; an OLTP storage engine coming from Solid Information Technology that's been battle-tested by big...

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