Further to the question below on the future of MariaDB.... We are heavy users of MariaDB running five replicated databases and two test development servers for our company's manufacturing management system. We used to run MySQL but after Oracle took over the level of service dropped sharply to an undesirable and unacceptable level and I made the switch to MariaDB with immediate improvements. For us MariaDB is the future. Even if MySQL dies. PLEASE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK MONTY AND EVERYONE INVOLVED. Regards, Bruce Carlson Business Systems Analyst / IT Projects Manager -----Original Message----- From: maria-discuss-bounces+bruce.carlson=nepean.com@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:maria-discuss-bounces+bruce.carlson=nepean.com@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Daniel Bartholomew Sent: Thursday, 23 August 2012 11:26 AM To: Maria Discuss Subject: [Maria-discuss] KB Question: Future of MariaDB? The following question has been posted to the Knowledgebase: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/future-of-mariadb/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Future of MariaDB? Where I work, we depend heavily on MySQL. We were recently made aware that Oracle may be slowly closing the source of MySQL; though we are a Sun customer, we depend heavily (and prefer) open source. I mentioned this to my boss and his response was to ask of the future of MariaDB -- because if this project doesn't survive, we're stuck with having to find yet another DB -- in that case, we might have to drink the Oracle koolaid if it comes to that, or move to PostgreSQL (something I've never touched). Commentary on these topics would be interesting to hear. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Thanks. -- Daniel Bartholomew Google+ - http://gplus.to/dbart Twitter - http://twitter.com/daniel_bart MariaDB: An Enhanced Drop-in Replacement for MySQL Website - http://mariadb.org Twitter - http://twitter.com/mariadb Google+ - http://gplus.to/mariadb Facebook - http://fb.com/MariaDB.dbms Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss Post to : maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp