From Sun to the cloud: MariaDB carves out space in database market

In December, MariaDB floated on the New York Stock Exchange via the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Angel Pond Holdings. With the move came $104 million in funding and $18 million through private investment in public equity. This represented a staging post in a long journey for MariaDB, which launched its first …

[Lars]

Nice to hear from them.

[CowHorseFrog]

> CEO Michael Howard has more than 30 years of experience in the software industry, including stints at Oracle, EMC, Information Builders, and Greenplum.

But can he actually program or is he full of hot air ?

[Anonymous Coward]

So when do we get a new fork?

Commercial bullshit is why we're all using MariaDB instead of MySQL.