Venture capital firm makes 'unsolicited' bid for MariaDB buyout

Venture capital firm Runa Capital has made a bid for MariaDB, the database company which endured a disappointing IPO last year and is still in discussions for additional funding. The database-as-a-service biz, which counts Nokia, Samsung and ServiceNow among its customers, received an "unsolicited non-binding indicative …

[Doctor Syntax]

Is this going to mean another fork?

[tracker1]

That was literally my first thought. All said, I prefer PostgreSQL.

[trevorde]

It's really Oracle, isn't it?

[Missing Semicolon]

Bye-bye

Basically, the management screwed up by forgetting that they are no longer VC funded. So the infinite money machine is no longer there.

Having seen the revenue of $13m, they should have spent $13m.

PI "purchase"? Nickel-and-dime to death.