Drizzle Article in Japanese
Yesterday, an article I wrote for a fairly large Japanese IT news portal called @IT was made public and I figured I should blog about it in English, so that I can tell my fellow Drizzlers about it. Here is the link to the article even though it is in Nihongo 
http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/fdb/rensai/drzl_pj/drzl01.html
This three page multi-byte article starts by covering the concept of how the project was launched by Brian Aker, and the overall concept and philosophy of Drizzle. I then moved on to describing how we are modernizing things, for example adopting the C99 standard, targeting modern hardware (lots and lots of cores) and the microkernel architecture. I also described how we intend on working with other open source communities by actively using open source libraries that are out there, rather than writing our own or use MySQL’s existing libraries.
One of the misunderstandings that came up after the announcement of Drizzle at OSCON was that Drizzle was being compared against SQLite. I was afraid that the same could happen in Japan so I made sure that this misunderstanding wouldn’t happen in my article. If you’re interested in the difference, it is well described in the Drizzle Wiki:
http://drizzle.wikia.com/wiki/Drizzle_compared_with_SQLite
Other than that, I thoroughly explained how we are committed to being open and transparent, hence constantly welcoming people and any suggestions and patches that they might have. Even if you find your suggestion to be something trivial, it could turn out to be a breakthrough for the community.
So the point is, lets all stimulate each other, have fun, and make a great piece of software 
