, the founder of JBOSS, criticized Monty Widenius (co-founder of MySQL) on his blog for "
The Save MySQL campaign calls open source mergers "uncertain and dangerous."
Fleury is the founder of JBoss application server, which was later acquired by Red Hat, where JBoss became one of the core parts of the company's strategy. According to Fleury, JBoss now brings $100 million in sales revenue to Red Hat annually. Fleury criticized Widenius for establishing universal signatures for the public in an attempt to put pressure on the EU and lobbying Russia and China to save MySQL. Quoting the famous saying when MySQL was sold to Sun, "MySQL has been sold and everything is over, at least in the legal person part." Fleury hinted that Widenius's movement will "hurt Sun and Sun's employees."
I wonder if Fleury has considered that JBOSS is a supplement and integration for Red Hat's enterprise infrastructure. When MySQL entered the Sun company before, it was also a supplement because Sun lacked database products. When entering Oracle, the situation is different. Oracle is the world's largest commercial database manufacturer, and MySQL is the world's largest open source database product. After the acquisition, MySQL will be locked in a drawer in Oracle's office and live in peace for the rest of its life.