On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Tilghman Lesher <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:41 PM, andrew mcelroy <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Whoa!!!  Stop the presses!  When did THIS happen??
> >>
> >>
> >> <
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/050912-can-apache-openoffice-still-compete-259134.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_linux_2012-05-16
> >
> >
> > "a while ago"
> >
> > basically oracle discovered that OSS is allergic to oracle.
>
> Really?  What about MySQL?  MariaDB hasn't really taken off the way
> LibreOffice has taken off.
>

MariaDB also has better performance metrics than MySQL.
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150211546215933
Facebook has had significant interest in using MariaDB.

I don't know what the curent usage numbers are, but IMO the biggest
thing holding mariaDB back is that the vast number of people who
use MySQL just are not aware of MariaDB.

Once there is awareness of MariaDB, there is a much more likely
adoption of that fork.

MySQL + PHP is kind of like QBASIC for the 21st century.
It has the lowest common denominator of technical talent using it.

That's not to say only morons are using it, but keep in mind that far more
less tech savvy people are using it than any other db, save possibly MS SQL
or technically Jet DB (access) if you want to get pedantic.

Andrew



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