Good questions. It's clearly part of the problem that practically nobody in this thread even know WTF Xpand(formerly Clustrix) is, and are judging MariaDB Inc'

Good questions. It's clearly part of the problem that practically nobody in this thread even know WTF Xpand(formerly Clustrix) is, and are judging MariaDB Inc's actions largely on a "why MySQL fork" basis. My ex-colleagues from Clustrix who stayed on-board through the MariaDB acquisition have all been recently #opentowork and talking of getting terminated on LinkedIn. Not marketing people, these were the engineers maintaining Xpand. The Xpand/Clustrix tech is far more interesting than any of MariaDB/MySQL/Postgres, but proprietary.