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MySQL founder Michael Widenius announces
the launch of the Drizzle project. "Drizzle is a smaller, slimmer
and (hopefully) faster version of MySQL; Features that the broad Drizzle
community does not want or need are now removed or in the process of being
removed (This includes stored procedures, views, triggers, grants, some
non-pluggable storage engines and more)." It also, apparently, is
intended to be developed in a more community-oriented manner, "A bit
like Fedora does to RedHat."