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K1 Acquires Mariadb

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K1 Acquires MariaDB, a Leading Database Software Company, and Appoints New CEO

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I've never heard of K1.
Should we expect MariaDB enshittification to ensure?
Strategic investment aims to accelerate MariaDB's mission to deliver innovative, scalable database solutions with new executive leadership to drive the next phase of growth
I'm not reading that as a "no" :(
- MariaDB is actually two separate entities: The company MariaDB and the MariaDB organization. The company sells enterprise licenses and support, and the organization manages the actual development. So there's a little separation that will at least slow the enshittification.
  
  Ah, good to know.
  I did know there were two sides of it (we explored MariaDB Enterprise at work, but unfortunately it didn't pan out).
  Any more, I just assume one company buying any other always results in a worse experience post-sale.
- Exactly. And so it begins.
- How the fuck do you "accelerate" something they are already achieving?
  Not sure how much of a future it can have even if you slap on some "speed".
  
  Hopefully it means more people working on it. But honestly, I use Postgres, so it doesn't particularly matter to me what "accelerate" means for them.
  
  They plan to send the mission into orbit using an North Korean missile, for maximum acceleration.
  /S
Lmao he did it again
- Hope he got another kid to name that next fork after.
  
  He does!
  Say hello to MaxDB!
Well, who is using mysql/mariadb nowadays anyways? If you haven’t made the switch to at least postgres in the past 5 years, you messed up anyways.
- Wordpress
  
  Yeah the Open Source version. I doubt that the hosted version is using that. Cloud providers have super fast DB’s that are basically compatible with the MySQL syntax
- Nextcloud.
  Though I think it has some level of support for postgres by now. I should check on that.
  
  I use NextCloud w/ Postgres and it works completely fine.
  
  It's worked on Postgres for several years now, and it's the preferred and recommended backend for NC.
  
  My question was ironic, implying that anyone using it in a productive system/software/service is doing a very bad job at software architecture. I avoid any product relying on super slow software pieces.
  
  The Go version?
- MySQL sucks, and almost everyone who willingly use it also sucks.
Unpopular opinion?: without wordpress, mysql/mariadb would have died years ago.
- There were so many web apps written in the early 00s on the LAMP stack, including Facebook. And that's not counting the tiny internal applications that so many businesses have that use MySQL/MariaDB. Because these are business critical applications, they pay Oracle/MariaDB for support.
Uh oh...
Good news in furthering Postgres adoption I guess. I mean most stuff was going that way anyway, but this will likely speed things up.
Hummm... Can someone tell me if this is good news or bad news?
Generally a buy-out is mostly bad news, but I can't tell here in this specific case.
- MariaDB.com is separate from MariaDB.org that does the development, so it shouldn't be too bad.
  Then again, the folks working at MariaDB.com might have a different opinion.
  
  Okay thank you :). We will see after a few years I guess?
  It doesn't look like an "emergency alarm" to switch over to another database. However, I was already thinking of switching every container to postgres. Maybe that's the push needed.
- Depends. Is K1 a vulture?
If you needed a reason to switch to Postgres, there you go.
I hope this won’t have any negative effects on PostgreSQL which will hopefully not have to cater the MySQL refugees now.
- I am a bit out of the loop in terms of RDBMS history, what do you mean by MySQL refugees?
  
  MySQL refugees = those who ran to MariaDB when MySQL was bought by 'Orrible and now need another new home. Accidentally, PostgreSQL has grown support for some of MySQL on recent versions.

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