Open-source databases in the post-Oracle world

“Ulf Sandberg: When the Oracle news was announced, we all
thought “uh oh.” Oracle was not exactly known for open source. It’s
very bottom-line focused, focused on shareholder value. But on open
source? No. That triggered us to think of an alternative to Oracle.
MySQL co-creator Monty Widenius started his project, MariaDB, and
he’s making MySQL better, adding features so that MySQL continues
to live with its creator. It’s not a fork; he builds against the
current version of MySQL.”

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