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Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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Post by davidmichael »

ahofmann wrote: post #3

Oof. What does this mean for us people using mariadb? Is there a big company that uses mariadb enough, that the development of the db is secured?

There are a number of large companies sponsoring MariaDB.org development. I don't think there is any concern about its development going forward at this point.

https://mariadb.org/donate/#corporate-sponsorships

Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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Post by eis »

This is the second time that Monty left a company that he had no control over even though it was his software "baby" that the company was selling. At least the first time he made some good money. But I'm not sure if that is the case this time.

Third time's the charm? Monty you should retain control over the companies that you want to sell your product under. If you don't control over 50% then it's not "your company" anymore.

Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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Post by bombcar »

eis wrote: post #12

This is the second time that Monty left a company that he had no control over even though it was his software "baby" that the company was selling. At least the first time he made some good money. But I'm not sure if that is the case this time. Third time's the charm? Monty you should retain control over the companies that you want to sell your product under. If you don't control over 50% then it's not "your company"…

Maybe he has enough money to be comfortable and should just work on a non-profit doing database things.

Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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Post by mardifoufs »

I wonder if some distro repos will stop installing mariadb instead of mysql whenever you try to install mysql. Always struck me as a weird thing to do since mysql never stopped development. (MariaDB.org seems to be still active, but there is now much more uncertainty (imo) compared to the mysql project)

Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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Post by marcosdumay »

felixgallo wrote: post #4

Shades of Basho (rip). One wonders if there is a curse on open source database companies. Maybe we could call it Data Gravity?

Postgres seems to be managing it pretty well.

The curse is on companies that decide to completely own some popular open source program. If you are happy to just be successful together with other people, you'll be fine.

Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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Post by avg_dev »

stefanos82 wrote: post #7

People, relax please! This is the company we are talking about, not the FOSS-ed version. If Microsoft has become a Platinum Sponsor for Azure support, you have nothing to worry about; the MySQL team that moved to MariaDB along with Monty will offer their support for you. See the video by Monty near the end of https://mariadb.org/donate/

> This entire article was written for one group of people.

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> If you are employed at MariaDB, you absolutely need to be scheduling interviews with other companies.

Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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Post by that_guy_iain »

wholinator2 wrote: post #10

I guess i don't fully understand the distinction. So the company is going down, but the open source org is still alive. Did the company do most of the development? If they did was that development available to people using it 'for free'? Why was there a company in the first place, you'd think it would be hard to make money betting on a single open source database. My only interaction with MariaDB was picking it from…

I think MariaDB the company did the support contracts, probably funded some development, and had some commerical products. They had some of their own products because they created the Business Source License[1] where code becomes open-source after three years.

[1] - https://mariadb.com/bsl11/

Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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Post by daneel_w »

bratao wrote: post #6

I´m very sad that MariaDB is in this state. MySQL it still a very powerful database. For someone looking for alternatives, I recommend the Percona Distribution of MySQL. https://www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-serv...

It's the commercial limb that has developed gangrene, not the software, not its founder, nor the developers. The software is (so far) not in any immediate danger.
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