Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Sun Jun 16 00:56:44 CDT 2013
Well, all my servers are already migrated over to MariaDB. :) Works great! Best regards, Hans-Christian Andersen On 15 Jun 2013, at 22:44, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > A couple of years ago Oracle bought out Sun systems and then took possession > of two of the main products, OpenOffice and MySQL and then tried to figure > how to make money off them. Both products have been wildly successful for > years. > > The first major defection was that the entire senior staff working on the > OpenOffice package quit and then opened their own competing package called > LibraOffice. Since then, even though Oracle has continued to pour money, > into OpenOffice, their new competitor has continued to surpass them in > reliability, performance and features. Recently Oracle announced they were > putting OpenOffice on the back burner as their competition LibraOffice had > climbed to an insurmountable lead and they were not going to waste more > money unless they could see some major profits... > > Oracle still had the crown jewels of MySQL and they have been continuing to > develop a plan to milk the product popularity by adding pay as you go extra > features while leaving the base version untouched. Initially, there was a > huge flight of MySQL users away from the product but slowly larger supporter > have been migrating, some moving to new databases like Postgres, NoSQL dbs > and even MariaDB, a fork created by the original and senior developer of > MySQL. > > Recently, FaceBook announced that they were going to be moving one hundred > percent to a NoSQL DB. Beyond that, it must have come as a real shock when > one of MySQL's biggest proponents announced they were moving to MariaDB. > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/15/red_hat_to_ditch_mysql_for_mariadb_i > n_rhel_7/ > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com