Google sniffs at MySQL fork MariaDB: Yum. Have an engineer

Last updated on September 8th, 2018

Search giant Google has put its support behind an independent fork of MySQL, the famed open-source database that was gulped down by software giant Oracle when it acquired Sun Microsystems.  The Chocolate Factory has sent an engineer to the MariaDB Foundation, which looks after the fork’s codebase, community and ecosystem, and has MySQL daddy Monty Widenius himself as its lead developer.
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