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Red Hat Ditches MySQL, Switches To MariaDB

Posted by Soulskill on from the market-share-sinking dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Red Hat will switch the default database in its enterprise distribution, RHEL, from MySQL to MariaDB, when version 7 is released. MySQL's first employee in Australia, Arjen Lentz, said Fedora and OpenSuSE were community driven, whereas RHEL's switch to MariaDB was a corporate decision with far-reaching implications. 'I presume there is not much love lost between Red Hat and Oracle (particularly since the "Oracle Linux" stuff started) but I'm pretty sure this move won't make Oracle any happier,' said Lentz, who now runs his own consultancy, Open Query, from Queensland. 'Thus it's a serious move in political terms.' He said that in practical terms, MariaDB should now get much more of a public footprint with people (people knowing about MariaDB and it being a/the replacement for MySQL), and direct acceptance both by individual users and corporates."

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  1. Re:3, 2, 1 by stanIyb · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why are you cowering? It's because my power is incomprehensible to a pathetic individual such as yourself! Just vanish already, and don't you dare return until you become One With Gamemaker! Return to Gamemakerdom immediately, you worthless sow!

  2. Re:3, 2, 1 by stanIyb · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Wow! Another Slashdot intellectual for me to defeat without a single problem! Why are you cowerin' as such never before!? Know your folly, Slashdot intellectual! It's time for me to grand slam your bare ass right into a mysterious fuckin' dark alley! Wow! A quarter going down a slot machine!

    Such a thing!

  3. Re:3, 2, 1 by VGPowerlord · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Congrats to the MariaDB team for making quality fork and fulfilling the dream of the GPL: that WHEN corporations try to buy/take our code we'll simply route around the damage.

    Here's the real solution: Don't sell it to a corporation in the first place like Monty did.

    Do I even need to point out that this kind of thing hurts the perception of Open Source developers and by extension Open Source software? Then again, it's about time we have a term to replace the horribly racist "Indian Giver" term. "MySQLGiver" maybe? "Open Source Giver"?

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  4. Re:3, 2, 1 by keytoe · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    MySQL+PHP is popular for the same reason VB6 used to be popular. It's quick and easy and it gets stuff done. Elite computer scientists look down upon both because they are perceived as quick and dirty hacks. But that doesn't matter; for many applications, a quick and dirty hack is good enough.

    I am sick to death of being told I'm 'being academic' for having a preference for quality.

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