Oracle beware, the MySQL original team has rallied!

Oracle acquired Sun in 09, which is essential for gaining control of MySQL, the hottest open source DBMS. However, the takeover does not seem to have fully achieved Oracle's goal: as early as 08 after MySQL was acquired by Sun, MySQL Kibaki (some founder and top engineers) left MySQL and set up a new company Skysql, and after Sun was acquired by Oracle, A group of senior executives also went out to create the Monty program Ab (MARIADB's parent company).

Interestingly, it seems to be coping with the old saying, "The long and the long must be divided", Skysql announced on 23rd that it would sign a merger agreement with Monty Program AB, and that the new company would operate under the Skysql name, and Skysql announced that he would join the MARIADB Foundation, Become one of the earliest members and donate resources and funds for the development of MARIADB.

Brief status of Monty program Ab, Skysql and after merging

Monty Program AB was founded by the co-founder and CEO of MySQL (formerly) Michael Widenius, which developed a derived version of MySQL mariadb. MARIADB's feature is that it can seamlessly connect new database systems, such as Cassandra and Leveldb, due to its pluggable storage engine. Cassandra, while giving users the ability to use new database technologies, allows users to access data left in legacy database systems, avoiding costly and risky data migrations.

Skysql was founded by former MySQL executives and investors after Sun was acquired by Oracle (supposedly dissatisfied with Sun's acquisition, MySQL's advance) to provide MYSQL/MARIADB ecosystem support. The company promises not to force users to move from MySQL to Mariadb and will continue to develop MySQL support for users.

According to Gigaom News, the new company will include Widenius, David Axmark (MySQL co-founder), Magnus Stenberg (former MySQL sales director) of these old MySQL, but more "scary" is the merged company has a total of 70 employees, 50 of them are MySQL Kibaki.

The target of the merged skysql will be placed below 4 points:

is timeless-supports both existing and subsequent MySQL versions and ensures that MARIADB will continue to be open source and independent. Multiple access-interoperable and flexible access to different types of databases, all-in-one SQL and NoSQL. Cost savings-Reduce database costs and other it overhead through effective maintenance and support. Remain transparent-to ensure data security, users will be presented with clear bug fixes and open test cases.

Merged corporate executives

The merger will appoint Patrik Sallner as CEO, while MySQL and MARIADB founder Michael Widenius will serve as CTO of the merged company. The merge operation will last for 4 months and its commercial terms are not published. At the same time, they have pledged that MARIADB will remain independent and open source.

"Defections" from companies such as Wikipedia

It is worth saying that Wikipedia completed its migration from MySQL to MARIADB shortly before the merger announcement, while Fedora and openSUSE Linux announced that they would discard MySQL using mariadb after the next release of MARIADB.

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From MySQL being bought by Sun to Sun being acquired by Oracle, we can see the database industry as the giant oracle of its cash machine, a simple and crude tool and a powerful ruler in the face of rivals. In the face of such a strong Oracle, I believe that many people like the author is looking forward to these MySQL Kibaki performance. (Revisers/Wang)

for this merger, netizens are a benevolent. Here is a look at the various replies:

1. From Sogou @dbaoutdo:good News, if can be bigger, must not walk by enterprise-class database software acquisition road.

2. @ Sorry I'm Oracle from Oracle: What's so careful, Oracle is never afraid of competition, there is competition to progress, MySQL has defects is normal, no defects how to progress? Oracle has survived the Resurrection, Phoenix Nirvana, Hehe, come on, let the competition more, stronger! O Remember staff and fans encourage!

3. From @mrabz: Enterprise-Class database or Oracle world.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)