China Has Great Potential for MariaDB Server
Our Board Meeting in April 2022 elected two seasoned new voting board members. One of them is Xiang Peng (Sean), Director, RDS Open Source Databases at Alibaba Cloud. … Continue reading \"China Has...
View ArticleContributions, our lifeblood
The lifeblood of MariaDB Foundation is contributions. Our trinity consists of the fundamental values of Adoption (of MariaDB Server), Openness (of the MariaDB Server codebase), and Continuity (of our...
View ArticleAn intra-pandemic Staff Meeting
Well over two years ago was the last time the MariaDB Foundation staff had met. That was at FOSDEM, in February 2020. Thus, no big surprise, one of our topmost goals for 2022 was to have a staff...
View ArticleCongratulations, MRDB – MariaDB plc!
Today, MariaDB Corporation announced that it completed its merger, landing on NYSE as “MRDB”. With MariaDB Corporation being our founding member as well as our primary code contributor, we want to...
View ArticleCloudFest Reflections by mariadb.org
CloudFest in Germany, what an event! Thousands of representatives of cloud service providers and the surrounding ecosystem. Although MariaDB Server seems to be the database of choice in this realm,...
View ArticleSauron says to Dumbledore and Merlin…
This sounds like a lame cross-genre joke, but it is not. It is a lame cross-genre math problem. I have to admit, it didn’t have those names when I read about it, but I wanted to make it a bit more...
View ArticleThe value of sponsoring MariaDB Foundation
Why does Intel sponsor the MariaDB Foundation? I had the opportunity to interview Steve Shaw, Principal Engineer at Intel and a Board Member at MariaDB Foundation. … Continue reading \"The value of...
View ArticleMariaDB & IONOS: Improving performance for hosting
The MariaDB Foundation values our partnerships with our sponsors. Our partnership with IONOS allows us to get insight into how MariaDB Server is used and the direction it should take. … Continue...
View ArticleGenerative AI and MariaDB Server
“Generative AI is a can of worms that has to be opened”. That was the laconic comment from a senior industry influencer, when I shared MariaDB Foundation’s plans for successively making MariaDB Server...
View ArticleLooking for more migration guinea pigs
Remember our open letter, Looking for MySQL 5.7 or 8.0 guinea pigs? We caught a nice German guinea pig! We caught a nice guinea pig, a German one, from Hannover. … Continue reading \"Looking for more...
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