Drizzle stops the rain
I’ve been following the Drizzle project with some interest. There’s a lot to like about it. But you know what I like most about the project?
No dual licensing. Just plain GPL, version 2.
I personally think this is the foundation for why people are empowered, why there is excitement, why there is progress, why people are contributing.
I asked Brian Aker where the name Drizzle came from. It comes from Clouds, because Cloud Computing is all the rage these days (I kinda avoid the term, myself). And because he lives in Seattle. I’m sure you see the connections.
But my strongest association with Drizzle is with the words of one of the greatest songwriters of all time:
Five-year plans and New Deals
Wrapped in golden chains
And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain?
What’s MySQL’s five-year plan? Didn’t they just have a New Deal with Sun? Doesn’t dual-licensing wrap the MySQL server in golden chains?
Are there too many coincidences here to just be coincidence, or is it that I’m short on sleep?
Will Drizzle really stop the rain?
CCR has another song about rain and Sun, but I’ll stop at that. It’s getting spooky in here. It makes me feel like they were having premonitions.
Where I’m from (Cannock, UK) the word ‘drizzle’ means a light shower. It’s also synonymous with dull, dreary and slow. I hope that’s not how the Drizzle Project turns out.
Is it too late to change it to MyLite?
Andrew McCombe
21 Aug 08 at 10:01 am
Will Drizzle fizzle? Is SQLite just right? How about SQLite DRBD for HA?
Mark Callaghan
21 Aug 08 at 11:30 pm
The air in Seattle is always refreshed when the drizzle begins :)
Brian Aker
2 Sep 08 at 4:55 pm