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Is MariaDB code base a fork of MySQL, seems a good business to sell something twice. I would have expected him to have a non-compete after selling it the first
by rr808 5y ago
Is MariaDB code base a fork of MySQL, seems a good business to sell something twice. I would have expected him to have a non-compete after selling it the first time. Anyone know how he pulled this off?
- tomtheelder 5y agoMariaDB is 12 years old. Any sort of non-compete probably expired.
- zibzab 5y agoYes, but this is Oracle we are talking about. For every developer they have 4 salesmen and 5 lawyers...
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- ashvardanian 5y agoSadly I have to note, that almost all modern DBMS companies don’t bring anything new to the table. They incredibly over-funded, but compete in S&M instead of R&D. A sizable chunk of those are essentially Postgres over RocksDB. Don’t want to name anyone here, but 2 minutes of Googling with the right keywords will bring up more examples
- lillecarl 5y agoI can only see Yugabyte which says they're using more postgres code than Cockroach publicly
- hodgesrm 5y agoAssuming you have sensible legal advice, non-competes related to company sale have a duration. 3 years is typical in California, which was presumably governing law for the MySQL purchase by Sun.