Red Hat Ditches MySQL, Switches To MariaDB 203
An anonymous reader writes "Red Hat will switch the default database in its enterprise distribution, RHEL, from MySQL to MariaDB, when version 7 is released. MySQL's first employee in Australia, Arjen Lentz, said Fedora and OpenSuSE were community driven, whereas RHEL's switch to MariaDB was a corporate decision with far-reaching implications. 'I presume there is not much love lost between Red Hat and Oracle (particularly since the "Oracle Linux" stuff started) but I'm pretty sure this move won't make Oracle any happier,' said Lentz, who now runs his own consultancy, Open Query, from Queensland. 'Thus it's a serious move in political terms.' He said that in practical terms, MariaDB should now get much more of a public footprint with people (people knowing about MariaDB and it being a/the replacement for MySQL), and direct acceptance both by individual users and corporates."
Re:MariaDB? (Score:3, Interesting)
The interesting part is: will Oracle's copy of RHEL include the change to use MariaDB?
Or will they 'fork' to keep their own MySQL?
Wish I was a fly on the wall @ oracle when this gets discussed :)
February 30 (Score:3, Interesting)
Nah, Postgres sucks. Doesn't even have a decent REPAIR TABLE command or support for Februaries which have more than 29 days.
Funnily enought February 30 actually existed in specific situations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_30