Struggling database company MariaDB could be taken private in $37M deal

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• haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I didnt know there was a mariadb company and that they were public. Does this have implications for mariadb as a product?

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  • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It really doesn’t matter much anymore. MariaDB doesn’t have the significance it once had. Worst case scenario if it were to disappear people would switch to Postgres and that’s that.

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    • daq@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Huh? Postgresql is not mysql compatible. Mariadb is very popular in a ton of businesses around the world as a not stupidly expensive sql database with great support.

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    • topinambour_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What happened ?

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    • HParker@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      MariaDB is a mysql based product like the Percona stuff right? I assume most users would switch to MySQL proper.

      Postgres is often a better choice, but not an easy one for shops already in the mysql world.

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  • PoY@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    i drive by that building all the time… i thought it was just a front cuz there’s never any cars in the parking lot

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    • haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Very interesting! Thanks for mentioning that.

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• taaz@biglemmowski.win ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Viva la postgresql

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  • tills13@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The nice thing about MariaDB is that you can use it in place of MySQL for WordPress. AFAIK there’s no official way to do the same with psql.

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  • jelloeater85@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I do love PostGREs, free Oracle. It depends on if the DB connection in your app supports both.

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• Rade0nfighter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Meh, time for another fork.

  To those people saying switch to MySQL, they miss the point - MySQL and Maria are basically interchangeable, Maria was made to replace MySQL like for like when oracle took over. It was made by the same guy (et al) and he he named both after his daughters.

  When Maria is taken over the same thing will happen. I for one hope that it is named for Widenius’ other child, max.

  The king is dead, long live the king! (MaxDB)

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  • Fudoshin@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He’s got a kid called MySQL?

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    • Rade0nfighter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      MySQL (/ˌmaɪˌɛsˌkjuːˈɛl/)[5] is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS).[5][6] Its name is a combination of “My”, the name of co-founder Michael Widenius’s daughter My,[7] and “SQL”.

      My Widenius-SQL 😂

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    • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Don’t be silly, his kid was named SQL.

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    • csm10495@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Came here to say this lol

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe Oracle could acquire them? 😢

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  • Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We should then fork the project, and maybe create a struggling database company around it!

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    • IonicFrog@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      THIS HAS ALL HAPPENED BEFORE, AND IT WILL ALL HAPPEN AGAIN

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    • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

      There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

      — Douglas Adams

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• VonReposti@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Please no

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• BigTrout75@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fork time!

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• Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  STAHP

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• wise_pancake@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The ‘non-binding’ proposal comes 14 months after MariaDB went public via SPAC

  If you plan to go public through a SPAC, you should take a step back.

  I don’t know why any investor would buy Spacs where contacted can even go through the usual due diligence process.

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