"Why indeed? That is the question I’ve been wondering myself for the past weeks. I recently had to update some MySQL servers running on Linux, these installations were an old version and I had to bring it up to one of the latest, stable version with PHP for some custom web applications. While doing this operation some weeks ago, I remembered that there was this hot new thing (released in 2009, already) called MariaDB that was created by the original author of MySQL - Michael “Monty” Widenius – who abandoned the ship when MySQL was bought from Oracle (inserting the obligatory Star Wars theme, the Imperial March here). The acquisition from MySQL to Oracle is a little bit more complicated than this resume. So while doing the upgrade, I remembered that I had on my – never ending – to do list, try this thing called MariaDB. Not on a production system, but on a less mission critical server for a starting point to see, what was the big fuzz about this… thing…"
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