MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
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MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
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Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#2Have SPACs rebranded as Blank Check Companies?
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#3Have SPACs rebranded as Blank Check Companies?
The other way around. "Blank check companies" have existed for many many years, but were a relatively rare instrument and did very bespoke deals. Most investors never heard of them. In recent years, a standardized deal emerged that became known as a SPAC (and all the recent flavors of the month). If you look in SEC regulations, you'll see references to "blank check companies" all over the place.
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#4The creator of MySQL named it after his daughter, "My". After it was forked, the fork was named after his other daughter, "Maria".
He has three children, so we've got one more go at this with a MaxDB if needed.
edit: I was wrong -- He already used MaxDB previously. We're out of names.
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#5I know SPACs get a lot of hate but I love seeing Wall Street listing firms get cut out of the IPO, losing their enormous "traditional" slice of the IPO pop.
Good luck to MariaDB.
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#6> MariaDB, Fast Growing, Popular Open Source Database Software Company
No matter how I turn and adjust the parameters, MariaDB seems to be the least popular of the big databases on the market today (https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...) and looking long-term (2004-preset), it seems like it's popularity is going down, not up (https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=MariaDB).
I wonder what metrics they are looking at to figure out that it's "Fast Growing", under "Viral adoption" and "A leading relational database brand"? Probably they have some insight that I don't, or this is just a press release filled with the usual marketing lies.
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#7> MariaDB, Fast Growing, Popular Open Source Database Software Company No matter how I turn and adjust the parameters, MariaDB seems to be the least popular of the big databases on the market today ( https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=... ) and looking long-term (2004-preset), it seems like it's popularity is going down, not up ( https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=MariaDB ).…
I am an almost daily user of mariadb. However, when i google anything mariadb query wise i instead type mysql. As the two dialects are nearly identical but there is more documentation available for the mysql search keyword on google.
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#8> MariaDB, Fast Growing, Popular Open Source Database Software Company No matter how I turn and adjust the parameters, MariaDB seems to be the least popular of the big databases on the market today ( https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=... ) and looking long-term (2004-preset), it seems like it's popularity is going down, not up ( https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=MariaDB ).…
> Probably they have some insight that I don't, or this is just a press release filled with the usual marketing lies.
Definitely typical marketing lies. They're IPO'ing precisely because it's a very good time to get out. There's no more upside left in MariaDB as a database/brand/business and the stock market is still high.
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#9The creator of MySQL named it after his daughter, "My". After it was forked, the fork was named after his other daughter, "Maria". He has three children, so we've got one more go at this with a MaxDB if needed. edit: I was wrong -- He already used MaxDB previously. We're out of names.
He just needs to have another kid.
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#10I know SPACs get a lot of hate but I love seeing Wall Street listing firms get cut out of the IPO, losing their enormous "traditional" slice of the IPO pop. Good luck to MariaDB.
You're thinking of "direct listings" (and even then, Morgan Stanley has done several of them). SPACs are actually fairly inefficient and usually give large windfalls to the SPAC sponsors.