Monty has last laugh as distros abandon MySQL | Linux Today

Monty has last laugh as distros abandon MySQL

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Sam Varghese
Feb 4, 2013

When the community GNU/Linux distributions Fedora and openSUSE recently announced that they would be switching their default database management system from MySQL to MariaDB, one man in Finland would have had a very hearty laugh.

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Sam Varghese

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