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Re: Announcement regarding possible offer

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Post by masklinn »

MenhirMike wrote: post #13
solardev wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

> 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.

Re: Announcement regarding possible offer

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Post by softwaredoug »

MariaDB itself is GPL, no?

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-licenses/

That makes it a bit different than something like Mongo or Elasticsearch suddenly going with a business friendly license.

However, I still would wonder about the health of the committership community independent of this company. The job of a good foundation is to steward the project accordingly, and I wonder if MariaDB has been community or company governed?

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Post by LeoPanthera »

asddubs wrote: post #21
jacquesm wrote: post #15

So, what's the next fork going to be called? Or has the acquirer somehow plugged Monty's favorite end-run around the acquisition game this time around?

well, does monty have a third child? if not, there probably won't be a fork

In Japan, "family" business owners often adopt adult children with the sole intention of them taking over the business without it leaving the "family".

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Post by evanelias »

softwaredoug wrote: post #23

MariaDB itself is GPL, no? https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-licenses/ That makes it a bit different than something like Mongo or Elasticsearch suddenly going with a business friendly license. However, I still would wonder about the health of the committership community independent of this company. The job of a good foundation is to steward the project accordingly, and I wonder if MariaDB has been community or compan…

Actually the Business Source License was originally created by MariaDB! It was applied to their database proxy product MaxScale.

The core database server will always be GPL though, especially as a fork of MySQL under the GPL.

MariaDB has a community and foundation which (afaik) is independent of the company.

Re: Announcement regarding possible offer

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Post by 5e92cb50239222b »

asddubs wrote: post #20
perbu wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

what are those?

Atomic DDL (possible because of a complete rewrite of the underlying storage format), proper Unicode by default (did you know that utf8 in MySQL is not really utf8? hit up your favorite search engine for utf8mb3 vs utf8mb4), strict typing by default, plus a horde of new features many MySQL users have been waiting like CTEs and window functions.

I too am a fan of what Oracle did for MySQL. There haven't been any major releases since 2018, though. Since their development process is closed, I am wondering when/if are we going to see MySQL 9 (if it's anything like 8, it's going to be huge).

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-nutshell.html

MariaDB initially went through a process of adding absolutely everything they could into the database (e.g: many additional storage engines like Cassandra and TokuDB), most of which since have been removed. It felt less like it was driven by a strong engineering process, and more like let's throw everything and see what sticks (not much did).

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softwaredoug wrote: post #23

MariaDB itself is GPL, no? https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-licenses/ That makes it a bit different than something like Mongo or Elasticsearch suddenly going with a business friendly license. However, I still would wonder about the health of the committership community independent of this company. The job of a good foundation is to steward the project accordingly, and I wonder if MariaDB has been community or compan…

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Post by petercooper »

asddubs wrote: post #21
jacquesm wrote: post #15

So, what's the next fork going to be called? Or has the acquirer somehow plugged Monty's favorite end-run around the acquisition game this time around?

well, does monty have a third child? if not, there probably won't be a fork

He does (My, Maria and Max) but the name is already used for a database: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaxDB
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