[Mageia-dev] mysql vs mariadb

Fri Apr 8 16:01:45 CEST 2011

Hi,
+
+last week I was at the fossgis conference and had the opportunity to 
+talk to someone from postgresql. Actually she was working for quite 
+some time at mysql/sun/oracle and did work there on postgresql as well 
+as mysql.
+
+Her opinion is, that mysql isn't dying, it's already dead. (After all, 
+what would you expect from someone from postgres?) She told me, that 
+at the time, she left Oracle, from the 400 people working on mysql 
+there, just 90 were still there with more of them leaving.
+Her opinion is, that the future of mysql is Monty's maridb project.
+
+So I'd like to ask you, what you think, we should do?
+- package mariadb as an alternative for mysql
+- package mariadb nd drop mysql or
+- stay with mysql and not package mariadb at all at least for the time 
+being
+
+By the way, if any of my words reads a bi peculiar, the "a" key on my 
+keyboard isn't working all the time, so try adding an "a" while you 
+read it :D
+
+Oliver
+