I’ve never heard of K1.
Should we expect MariaDB enshittification to ensure?
Strategic investment aims to accelerate MariaDB’s mission to deliver innovative, scalable database solutions with new executive leadership to drive the next phase of growth
I’m not reading that as a “no” :(
MariaDB is actually two separate entities: The company MariaDB and the MariaDB organization. The company sells enterprise licenses and support, and the organization manages the actual development. So there’s a little separation that will at least slow the enshittification.
Ah, good to know.
I did know there were two sides of it (we explored MariaDB Enterprise at work, but unfortunately it didn’t pan out).
Any more, I just assume one company buying any other always results in a worse experience post-sale.
MariaDB tried to go public a while back and their stock price tanked immediately and never recovered. If they hadn’t gotten acquired I imagine they’d have gone out of business.
Exactly. And so it begins.
How the fuck do you “accelerate” something they are already achieving?
Not sure how much of a future it can have even if you slap on some “speed”.
They plan to send the mission into orbit using an North Korean missile, for maximum acceleration.
/S
So MariaDB will explode halfway to Japan?
Uh oh…
Lmao he did it again
Well, who is using mysql/mariadb nowadays anyways? If you haven’t made the switch to at least postgres in the past 5 years, you messed up anyways.
Wordpress
MySQL sucks, and almost everyone who willingly use it also sucks.
Unpopular opinion?: without wordpress, mysql/mariadb would have died years ago.
There were so many web apps written in the early 00s on the LAMP stack, including Facebook. And that’s not counting the tiny internal applications that so many businesses have that use MySQL/MariaDB. Because these are business critical applications, they pay Oracle/MariaDB for support.
Hummm… Can someone tell me if this is good news or bad news?
Generally a buy-out is mostly bad news, but I can’t tell here in this specific case.
MariaDB.com is separate from MariaDB.org that does the development, so it shouldn’t be too bad.
Then again, the folks working at MariaDB.com might have a different opinion.
I hope this won’t have any negative effects on PostgreSQL which will hopefully not have to cater the MySQL refugees now.
I am a bit out of the loop in terms of RDBMS history, what do you mean by MySQL refugees?
MySQL refugees = those who ran to MariaDB when MySQL was bought by 'Orrible and now need another new home. Accidentally, PostgreSQL has grown support for some of MySQL on recent versions.