[dba-Tech] google going all in with mariaDB

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/12/google_mariadb_mysql_migration/

This could be a game-changer. Google evidently has decided that the open 
source integrity of Monty's project outweighs Oracle's closed source 
development resources and the fact that MariaDB 10.0 is still alpha!

Google senior systems engineer Jeremy Cole's quote "I'd really love to 
see a single MySQL community, I think that's more or less impossible 
under Oracle, I don't know if that's possible under MariaDB" makes me 
wonder if Google might try to buy MySQL from Oracle, and if Oracle won't 
sell, go into direct competition by publishing their SkySQL/MariaDB 
version for widespread use.

PB