Announcement regarding possible offer

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Post by pranay01 » Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 6:21 PM UTC

Announcement regarding possible offer
investors.mariadb.com

Re: Announcement regarding possible offer

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Post by capableweb » Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 6:57 PM UTC

Hah, so MariaDB was created because the creator of MySQL got pissed about the acquisition by Sun/Oracle, and now MariaDB might be acquired as well? Making bank while forking their project over and over isn't a bad way to make a living it seems.

Re: Announcement regarding possible offer

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Post by dylan604 » Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 7:02 PM UTC

capableweb wrote: post #2

Hah, so MariaDB was created because the creator of MySQL got pissed about the acquisition by Sun/Oracle, and now MariaDB might be acquired as well? Making bank while forking their project over and over isn't a bad way to make a living it seems.

good thing the concept of non-compete windows are not part of FOSS

Re: Announcement regarding possible offer

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Post by bawolff » Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 7:03 PM UTC

What even is mariadb's business model?

Re: Announcement regarding possible offer

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Post by solardev » Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 7:03 PM UTC

capableweb wrote: post #2

Hah, so MariaDB was created because the creator of MySQL got pissed about the acquisition by Sun/Oracle, and now MariaDB might be acquired as well? Making bank while forking their project over and over isn't a bad way to make a living it seems.

Is it more that they're against acquisitions in general, or specifically an acquisition by Oracle, widely considered one of the eviler tech companies?

Re: Announcement regarding possible offer

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Post by jorams » Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 7:04 PM UTC

capableweb wrote: post #2

Hah, so MariaDB was created because the creator of MySQL got pissed about the acquisition by Sun/Oracle, and now MariaDB might be acquired as well? Making bank while forking their project over and over isn't a bad way to make a living it seems.

The big difference here is that Runa Capital is a venture capital firm, and they already invested in MariaDB 8 years ago. To be honest I don't really understand how this acquisition makes sense in that context.

Re: Announcement regarding possible offer

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Post by dkjaudyeqooe » Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 7:04 PM UTC

bawolff wrote: post #4

What even is mariadb's business model?

Build, sell, fork, repeat.

Re: Announcement regarding possible offer

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Post by nickstinemates » Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 7:04 PM UTC

bawolff wrote: post #4

What even is mariadb's business model?

They sell support to anyone with a MariaDB database that needs it. Many customers. Pretty cheap.

Source: Used to work there.

Re: Announcement regarding possible offer

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Post by actionfromafar » Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 7:05 PM UTC

solardev wrote: post #5

capableweb wrote: post #2

Hah, so MariaDB was created because the creator of MySQL got pissed about the acquisition by Sun/Oracle, and now MariaDB might be acquired as well? Making bank while forking their project over and over isn't a bad way to make a living it seems.

Is it more that they're against acquisitions in general, or specifically an acquisition by Oracle, widely considered one of the eviler tech companies?

Just short of a hundred million dollars against it, in that case. :-)

Edit: my bad - Sun acquired it, not Oracle. Made me all sad for Suns demise again.

Re: Announcement regarding possible offer

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Post by perbu » Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 7:06 PM UTC

solardev wrote: post #5

capableweb wrote: post #2

Hah, so MariaDB was created because the creator of MySQL got pissed about the acquisition by Sun/Oracle, and now MariaDB might be acquired as well? Making bank while forking their project over and over isn't a bad way to make a living it seems.

Is it more that they're against acquisitions in general, or specifically an acquisition by Oracle, widely considered one of the eviler tech companies?

As a long term MySQL user I think getting acquired by Oracle pretty good for the product. The old, hard issues that MySQL never had the engineering to tackle themselves finally got resolved.