MariaDB founder Ulf Michael “Monty” Widenius says that Oracle has failed to make a success of MySQL because the company doesn’t understand open source. “It’s not in their blood,” Widenius, one of the three co-founders of MySQL, told iTWire in an interview.
“It’s not in their DNA,” Monty (pictured above) added. “They are trying to run open source development the same way as they run closed source development and that is a big mistake.”