On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Terry Chay <tc...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Nice! > > > > The main goal of migrating to MariaDB is not performance driven. More > so, I think it's in WMF's and the open source communities interest to > coalesce around the MariaDB Foundation as the best route to ensuring a > truly open and well supported future for mysql derived database technology. > Performance gains along the way are icing on the cake. > > > > > If it works out, then at some point we should probably tell the MariaDB > peeos that they can mention that the WMF uses it. :-) We've been talking to Monty Widenius who visited the WMF office prior to the Foundation announcement, and are fostering mutual support between the Wikimedia and MariaDB Foundations. Win-win for the open source community at large! -A _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
