Re: Sun Talks about MySQL

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Andrew Sullivan" <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Sun Talks about MySQL
Date: 2008-04-25 14:53:11
Message-ID: 20080425075311.5d6469aa@commandprompt.com
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On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:41:24 -0400
"Jonah H. Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> > I guess they don't read _The Mythical Man-Month_ at Sun.
>
> Not to rain on my MySQL/Sun bash parade, but your response is based on
> the extremely poor assumption that Sun would put 100 developers on a
> single project. While Sun has certainly had its share of
> software-related problems in the past, I would hope that they
> understand basic software project management. It's much more likely
> that they will have teams of 6-8 people working on individual
> projects.

I can only assume this response is a joke. :P

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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