Re: OT: In case you've been worrying about MariaDB and F19

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Fernando Cassia  wrote:

>  On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
>  > And this also may be interesting in the context of MariaDB:
>  >
>  >
>  http://www.zdnet.com/look-out-oracle-skysql-and-mariadb-join-forces-70000...
>
>  Basically the old founder of MySQL sold the company but now wants it back?.
>  
He has started a new company which appears to be doing fine.


>  Gee, I wonder what would happen when/if they piss off Oracle
>  completely and Oracle decides to stop MySQL development, and lay off
>  all programmers. On top of whose new source code will they base their
>  builds?
>  
They aren't really dependent on the rebase for features or fixes for the
last several releases.  MariaDB 5.5 implements several features that only
appeared later in MySQL 5.6 for example.  Also MariaDB have started off
with 10.x to make it more obvious they are on a divergent path while
retaining compatibility at the protocol level

http://blog.mariadb.org/tag/mariadb-10/

Rahul