MySQL Future

I'm glad IBM didn't get Sun. No matter what you say about Oracle (tell me something new!), there's at least some hope, and the ability to, as another blogger put it, to become involved in the community: http://blog.devx.com/2009/04/will-oracle-continue-funding-s.html

Early this decade, Interwoven acquired Scriptics and scuttled TCL/TK after promising support. I have always considered incrTCL, the OO version of TCL/TK, to be far superior to Java, the source of much bloatware. But, after being scuttled, TCL/TK went open source and was available to small dynamically growing companies who didn't have to pay huge licencing fees (even if metanationals largely avoided TCL/TK afterward).

IBM are a real killer of technology. They are also a killer of the social and economic landscape, holding tax-free lands in my home, Vermont; speculating on their value, and laying a few workers off each time the legislature makes noises about taking away some of their subsidies. (Go to the Holocaust Museum if you want to see more of IBM's real history.)