K1 Acquires Mariadb
K1 Acquires Mariadb
/PRNewswire/ -- K1 Investment Management, LLC ("K1"), one of the largest investors in small-cap enterprise software companies, today announced the completion...
I've never heard of K1.
Should we expect MariaDB enshittification to ensure?
Strategic investment aims to accelerate MariaDB's mission to deliver innovative, scalable database solutions with new executive leadership to drive the next phase of growth
I'm not reading that as a "no" :(
MariaDB is actually two separate entities: The company MariaDB and the MariaDB organization. The company sells enterprise licenses and support, and the organization manages the actual development. So there's a little separation that will at least slow the enshittification.
Exactly. And so it begins.
How the fuck do you "accelerate" something they are already achieving?
Not sure how much of a future it can have even if you slap on some "speed".
Well, who is using mysql/mariadb nowadays anyways? If you haven’t made the switch to at least postgres in the past 5 years, you messed up anyways.
Nextcloud.
Though I think it has some level of support for postgres by now. I should check on that.
My question was ironic, implying that anyone using it in a productive system/software/service is doing a very bad job at software architecture. I avoid any product relying on super slow software pieces.
MySQL sucks, and almost everyone who willingly use it also sucks.
Unpopular opinion?: without wordpress, mysql/mariadb would have died years ago.
There were so many web apps written in the early 00s on the LAMP stack, including Facebook. And that's not counting the tiny internal applications that so many businesses have that use MySQL/MariaDB. Because these are business critical applications, they pay Oracle/MariaDB for support.
Uh oh...
Good news in furthering Postgres adoption I guess. I mean most stuff was going that way anyway, but this will likely speed things up.
Hummm... Can someone tell me if this is good news or bad news?
Generally a buy-out is mostly bad news, but I can't tell here in this specific case.
MariaDB.com is separate from MariaDB.org that does the development, so it shouldn't be too bad.
Then again, the folks working at MariaDB.com might have a different opinion.
Okay thank you :). We will see after a few years I guess?
It doesn't look like an "emergency alarm" to switch over to another database. However, I was already thinking of switching every container to postgres. Maybe that's the push needed.
Depends. Is K1 a vulture?
If you needed a reason to switch to Postgres, there you go.
I hope this won’t have any negative effects on PostgreSQL which will hopefully not have to cater the MySQL refugees now.