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MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
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Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#42I 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.
As a class, SPACs have higher fees than IPOs and perform worse as investments. https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/12/04/h...
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You should use bing or duckduckgo. I've been hearing lately on HN that they are many orders better than Google.
definitely not duckduckgo. bing has been on par, with technical searches but lacking otherwise
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yet mariadb is what is installed most often for mysql usage requirements.
These days, most smaller users go with a managed DBaaS such as AWS RDS, and on RDS MySQL gets massively more usage than MariaDB. I build schema management software for MySQL and MariaDB, https://www.skeema.io , used by several hundred companies. Among my userbase, MariaDB is a tiny minority, to such an extent that I wonder if it's worthwhile to continue keeping up with their new quarterly release schedule.
Is it possible MariaDB registers itself as MySQL? No clue how your system works or how you figure out which DB it is.
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#45A public company will have a board of directors who set the direction of the company; as such what is to stop the board from directing that the license be changed?
I am sure they'll change their license, like some others have done: https://www.confluent.io/blog/license-changes-confluent-plat... https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-open-source-busines... I don't think there is any place for GPL in databases and similar software, specially if it is to be built and run by for-profit companies.
I used to be opposed to GPL at moral level have have since changed my mind on this. It makes sense for anything that is essentially infrastructure -- operating systems, web servers, software firewalls -- to be GPL: improvements at this level are rarely something which gives a specific company a competitive advantage. In the cases where it would, however, I like the idea of dual-licensing so that a GPL project (for example: Linux) could be combined with proprietary code without needing to publish the changes. Right now anyone thinking along those lines (Sony, Netflix, Juniper, etc) chooses FreeBSD. In the case of the companies who have chosen FreeBSD for proprietary use they have, in many cases, ended up contributing work back to the parent project if for no other reason than self-interest in making updates to the base OS easier as their custom code remains slim. If Linux had been offering this dual-license option I think the examples above would have chosen Linux and there would have been contributions back to the parent project that aren't there today.
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#46I 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.
The trick to stopping Wall Street listing firms from their slice is NOT SPACs, but rather the “Dutch Auction” IPO method. Created by American Company WR Hambrecht - and popularized by American Company Google, the Dutch Auction IPO method allows online bidders to pre-emptively bid a stock’s price, which lets companies find an equilibrium for supply and demand that they believe investors will be happy about. This, in turn, allows IPOs to encounter less manipulation and allows them to dodge banking “flips”; where banks set the price, buy it low, and sell high in the future
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#47Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should use bing or duckduckgo. I've been hearing lately on HN that they are many orders better than Google.
definitely not duckduckgo. bing has been on par, with technical searches but lacking otherwise
Keep in mind this is changing over time. Search engines do not stand still, I keep bouncing between Google and DDG, the former has been steadily decreasing in quality and the later increasing to the point that I now use DDG first.
I'm not necessarily saying your opinion at this moment in time will change, only that you should re-evaluate it occasionally.
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#49The 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.
Don't forget cousin Postgres.
Now I'm wondering where Oracle and DB2 would be in that family tree.
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#50Wow, like that must be roughly 300 Wordl's in money.