Submission + - MySQL Community create Open Database Alliance (opendatabasealliance.com)
Gary Pendergast writes: "Monty Widenius, the "father" of MySQL, has created the the Open Database Alliance, with the aim of becoming the industry hub for the MySQL open source database. He wants to unify all MySQL-related development and services, providing a potential solution to the fragmentation and uncertainty facing the communities, businesses and technical experts involved with MySQL, following then news of the Oracle acquisition of Sun."
