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Wikipedia Moved To MariaDB 5.5
Peetke writes "As we all know Oracle is not the biggest friend to the Open Source Community. Long standing OSS supporter Wikipedia has now moved from an optimized fork of MySQL 5.1 to MariaDB 5.5, for both its English and German sites. Wikipedia expects all other languages to follow within a month. Performance-wise, this move has no big implications, but it will ensure our biggest community database will live long and prosper."
"Oracle may screw MySQL".
Is there a reason for this other than ifs, buts and maybes?
One definition of madness is to try the same thing again and again and keep expecting different results. It's Oracle. You will get screwed.
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It's part performance and part philosophical. Given that wikipedia is a strongly philosophical enterprise, this seems reasonable.
Well, the performance difference didn't seem to be huge - in fact, some stats were slower.... I don't buy for a second that it was for performance reasons.
Philosophy - maybe - however Oracle contribute quite a bit to OSS - more than a lot of companies - See: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/linux/technical-contributions-1689636.html
In a nutshell, they are working on NFS over IPv6, data integrity checks for ext3, they maintain libstdc++, they worked hard on BTRFS, If anything, they have helped open source much more than most other companies.
Again, I don't see the philosophical reasons other than 'because we can'.
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Java was already open source when Oracle bought Sun. And since then, Oracle has been trying to close it back again with bullshit patent claims.
Right, they couldn't possibly have a good reason for doing it.