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They're doing all kinds of awesome and the greater community is starting to see this, which is evident with Archlinux* for example whom has dropped MySQL in fav
by xd 13y ago
They're doing all kinds of awesome and the greater community is starting to see this, which is evident with Archlinux* for example whom has dropped MySQL in favour of MariaDB.
Slowly but surely MySQL will fall to the waysides, which I can't help but think is what Oracle wants.
* https://www.archlinux.org/news/mariadb-replaces-mysql-in-repositories/ https://www.archlinux.org/news/mariadb-replaces-mysql-in-rep...
- pyre 13y agoWhat is Oracle's aim in killing MySQL only to have it replaced by MariaDB?
- aioprisan 13y agoeven if you kill 80% of free signups to MySQL to get 10% of those converted to premium offerings, it would be worth it.. the rest would go to other MySQL-compatible drop-in replacement solutions, like MariaDB