Guy Kawasaki has ten questions with Mårten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB. I’ve met Mårten before and he impressed me greatly with his understanding of databases and open source. As a teaser for the interview, here’s one of his thoughts about the question of MySQL ceasing to exist:

The big questions is what happens if a closed source company fails. I think users are going to increasingly demand that their vendors open source their products.

MySQL’s Brian Aker posts about removing the BDB storage engine from MySQL. There’s no conspiracy, just a dual desire to remove a bottleneck from maintaining unmaintained code and the desire to move everything behind useful and usable interfaces. Brian calls it eating their own dogfood, at least for using the plugin API.

I like days when I can remove code and add features.