At the risk of making it seem like this is all we’re talking about here at Pythian, here we go again.

Paul Vallee pointed me towards this article by John Dvorak that more or less echoes a blog post I wrote in French the day previous for my personal blog that you can read here: Le rachat de MySQL AB vu d’un paranoïaque; hopefully you read French and if not, maybe Google Translate will do a decent job; and if not well you can read Dvorak’s his is in English and he gets half the story!

So, first things first, Dvorak’s article leads me to think my theory is indeed wrong: if Dvorak says I’m right ; I’m afraid I’m wrong. (more…)