MySQL 5.1 goes GA, Monty not happy

MySQL 5.1 is now out, but not everyone is happy about this oft-delayed open source database release.

I’ve been hearing about MySQL 5.1 since at least 2006 and over the last two years there have been a few dates I’ve been told when it would be released.

“One would have thought that MySQL AB (now the MySQL department at Sun) should have learned something from our too early release of MySQL 5.0 but unfortunately this is not the case,” Widenius stated.