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Fedora 19 Nixing MySQL in Favor of MariaDB

Posted by Unknown on from the take-that-mr-ellison dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Red Hat developers are planning to replace MySQL with MariaDB in Fedora 19. For the next Fedora update, the MariaDB fork would replace MySQL and the official MySQL package would be discontinued after some time. The reasoning for this move is the uncertainty about Oracle's support of MySQL as an open-source project and moves to make the database more closed." Update: 01/22 13:47 GMT by T : Note: "Nixing" may be a bit strong; this move has been proposed, but is not yet officially decided.

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  1. Re:Postgresql by egr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Off-topic. Fedora already has PostgreSQL in its repositories. The point of the move is to replace MySQL, not to have some killer database.

  2. Yes. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The point of the move is to replace MySQL, not to have some killer database.

    And for those of us who are tied to MySQL, it's nice to have an alternative now without the hassle of moving to a completely different DBM.

  3. Ha Ha by EETech1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That is one thing I always loved about Open Source Software, you can't hold it hostage. If something happens to threaten the project, its fork you, and bye bye!

    The users and developers take what was there (and theirs) pack up and resume life a usual somewhere else, and give the finger to all the Larrys that come along and try to (ab)use them as part of their own personal plot.

    If you take care of them they will stay, and you might even see your user and developer base grow, but try and take advantage of them and you will soon be left with nothing. They take the short term pain of starting over instead of the long term pain of taking orders from someone who does not have their best interests in mind.

    Cheers!

    1. Re:Ha Ha by cheesybagel · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The problem with Oracle is they always do it like this. First they acquire a major competitor in a major cash transaction then they milk it for a couple of years firing most of the development team and selling licenses while they can. Then they cease support altogether. They are not interested in further developing anything they acquire. It is all slash and burn. Their main expertise was never development it is sales and support.