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I went to Open Database camp a few weeks ago. There was a talk about the split... The short story: MariaDB is a fork of MySQL done by Michael "Monty" Widenius
by acomjean 14y ago
I went to Open Database camp a few weeks ago. There was a talk about the split...
The short story: MariaDB is a fork of MySQL done by Michael "Monty" Widenius one of the mySQL founders.
It seems the winds of fear are blowing against mySQL and MariaDB is getting mindshare (it is a fork so pretty close still but not going back). Although Oracle hasn't really done anything yet, and did send a rep to the conference, there seems to be some distrust.
About a decade ago at a startup we had and Oracle instance running s a test, their sales people where tenacious (fought them off by asking for an ODBC driver for linux). Then startup went under. sigh.
- arkitaip 14y agoMy prediction is that in the next few years Oracle will give up on MySQL by either abandoning it or give it to the foss community. Because once the enthusiasts, devs and hackers lose faith in your foss project - it's done for. Just look at what happened to Open Office.
- cincinnatus 14y agoBut first they'll try to sue a bunch of people.
- kryptiskt 14y agoI don't see them giving up the copyrights. As it is GPL, nobody else is going to go opencore with it or having a separate commercial license. Which puts a spanner in the works for MariaDB and other MySQL-based competitors (Monty did in fact complain about it a while back).