[dba-Tech] The MySQL war

It looks like Google has thrown its support in behind the new MySQL fork of MariaDB.

It is not major support, at the moment, mostly symbolic but there is undoubtedly more to come. Google has always got perverse pleasure out stripping the ground out from under another competitor and now it is taking its first swing at Oracle, who according to the latest business reviews has been hit hard by it creeping NoSQL and PostgresSQL competitors. 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/08/google_backs_mariadb/

Jim