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Re: Announcement regarding possible offer

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Post by piperswe »

reocha wrote: post #28
cultofmetatron wrote: post #11

Just gets better every year without drama or fanfare. the postgres devs are really unsung heroes in the developer community.

Agreed, Postgres is a no-brainier for most (either low capital startups or open source) db applications

It's a great choice for higher budget applications too. At my job (public tech company, former startup), we use Postgres as our source of truth for just about everything that should go in an OLTP database (e.g. not analytics). I don't think there's another database product that would work as well for us as Postgres.

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Post by kelnos »

pjmlp wrote: post #37
throwawayllaq wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The original way of making money with FOSS that folks like Hashicorp and InfluxData fail to understand while they push for unicorn status.

Except that model doesn't work for all software use cases, specially desktop software.

Most of HashiCorp's and InfluxData's products are server-side cloud stuff, though, yeah?

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Post by stock_toaster »

masklinn wrote: post #22
MenhirMike wrote: post #13

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> tech companies Oracle is not a tech company but a law firm that happens to have an engineering department.

That's IBM. Oracle is a horrible person which happens to have a law firm.

Oracle is a lawnmower with a law firm.

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Post by runako »

foota wrote: post #33
runako wrote: post #18

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It's trading at a market cap of around $31 million, which is below even its revenue. Could make sense to buy it, improve operating metrics, and then flip it. (Or buy it, make it profitable, and earn a return that way.)

I'm surprised the employees aren't making a buy out offer at this point. I'd love to own a reasonable fraction of the company I work for at that sort of price and would happily throw in some of my savings.

That makes sense, except the numbers may not match what people have/are willing to risk on their employer. $31m divided 500 ways (guessing @ staff size) is $62k each. That's a big bet in one place, and one that is likely to be out of reach for some staff.

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Post by b112 »

rubiquity wrote: post #14
perbu wrote: post #10

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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.

Facebook and Alibaba deserve a lot of the credit for MySQL’s recent renaissance.

And a lot of mysql 5.6 was percona.

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Post by pjmlp »

kelnos wrote: post #42
pjmlp wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except that model doesn't work for all software use cases, specially desktop software.

Most of HashiCorp's and InfluxData's products are server-side cloud stuff, though, yeah?

Not when the product is a programming language for infrastructure management.

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Post by KronisLV »

I wonder where MariaDB and MySQL will be in like 5-10 years. The whole SPAC thing was weird to hear about and now talk of possible acquisition.

I picked MariaDB for a freelance project recently, because it seems to work well with everything I self-host: Matomo Analytics, Apache Skywalking APM, BookStack Wiki, Keycloak for user management and for any of the .NET (or Java) services that I'm going to be running.

Aside from DDL not being transactional (like in PostgreSQL) it's nice to use, has reasonable resource usage and in some ways is pretty simple (even things like having just databases instead of the database/schema separation, which I don't necessarily need). Also, tooling like MySQL Workbench is great and stuff like Bitnami container images make spinning up new instances easy as can be.

It's good that for most basic use cases switching between MySQL and MariaDB is still doable, yet I still hope that both of the projects will stick around and will remain alive. Admittedly, you mostly hear about PostgreSQL on HN - though a litmus test like Google Trends or the DB-Engines Ranking site both suggest that it might be over represented here a bit (lots of cool features to talk about).

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Post by simonebrunozzi »

jorams wrote: post #6
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.

Might be that they already have a buyer, and want to get the whole company before turning it over for a profit.
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