Wikipedia Migrates to MariaDB | Linux Today

Wikipedia Migrates to MariaDB

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Apr 30, 2013

More and more Oracle is looking like the place where good software goes to die a slow and lonely death. Sure, Oracle is still developing MySQL, but who’s there to work on it anymore? Since the best and brightest tend to leave Oracle soon after their project is acquired, it comes as no surprise that MariaDB is emerging as the de facto successor to the most popular open source database on the web.

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