@lewismenelaws: Michael Widenius created MySQL and named it after his daughter, My. He sold it to Sun for $1 billion… then Oracle bought Sun, and suddenly the database he built was owned by its biggest competitor 👀 So the same day the deal was announced, he forked MySQL into MariaDB — named after his OTHER daughter. He warned Oracle would let MySQL stagnate. The EU approved the deal anyway. Fast forward: MySQL still works, but the community version quietly lost features to Oracle’s paid edition while bug reports piled up. Meanwhile MariaDB stayed fully compatible, so Wikipedia, Google, and most Linux distros just… switched. Then in 2024, MariaDB got bought by private equity. History rhyming. (He also has a third database, MaxDB, named after his son. He only has 3 kids — so don’t expect a fourth.) Follow for more stories like this 🔧 #programming #coding #softwareengineering #database #techtok

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fight.legacy
gyhcggfcccf :
No reason to not use postgres
2026-06-04 18:17:04
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glorious.purpoise
glorious.porpoise :
Has he considered not selling to private equity
2026-06-06 07:44:02
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tiktoktoe963
tiktoktoe963 :
So he keeps selling what he’s doing and then forking it to sell it again?
2026-06-05 01:27:09
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nottelling54
Not Telling855 :
Technically this guy has sold out his open source followers twice now.
2026-06-05 11:53:11
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user5740755578681
name :
He could…. Not sell out, just a thought.
2026-07-11 08:39:40
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hermestresmigistus
shatap :
who is mongo then?
2026-06-04 19:58:18
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thefappening69
TheFappening :
not quite true, MySQL is very updated. in fact the latest LTS version is MySQL v9.7 LTS
2026-07-31 00:53:20
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frappe630
Frappe :
Doing it the second time makes it obvious he is the problem 😂
2026-07-07 14:03:09
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blackwolf_ff
Black Wolf :
this Guy just confused me which one is now SQL and mongo DB
2026-06-04 19:58:30
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uioik00
kwesi :
so why does he keep selling?
2026-06-04 23:27:33
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stary1night1
youDontKnowMe :
he has a granddaughter Cassandra
2026-06-22 20:46:20
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abaywatch
CallMeABay :
My EES-QUE-ELL, not MY-SEQUEL
2026-06-08 17:45:31
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mimsymad
MimsyMad :
Not quite the full story. There is a commercial company called mariadb.com but the development is still controlled by a foss organisation and is wholly independent.
2026-06-05 08:32:59
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flutterwhiz
flutterwhiz :
Bro just bored and creating dbs after his offsprings
2026-06-04 22:39:54
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jericon001
Jericon 🌶️ :
His daughters name is pronounced “myu”
2026-07-02 19:05:42
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rickhollandtul
💙Rick💙 :
That’s when I started using PostgreSQL.
2026-06-05 12:59:40
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cloverleif
cloverleif :
So basically he found a way to have a project print money by forking it after each sale, and selling the result each time.
2026-06-05 21:42:07
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engronanka
Jimmy :
so he's just creating databases and selling them off and then when the companies he sell to makes decisions he doesn't like he starts a new one? That's one way to make money I guess, but like it's starting to look like a pattern
2026-06-05 07:42:33
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neolee112233
Neo Lee :
after MaxDB, it's going to be MeDB 😂😂
2026-08-01 16:28:49
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birdly_68
birdly_68 ❌ :
There’s another problem with my SQL, which is Oracle won’t let you put it into a product that you sell. You then have to pay them a royalty or get sued. Unfortunately, my SQL is backed to innumerable legacy systems .
2026-06-05 08:16:06
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the.parten
the.parten :
im his 4th son. expect partenDB anytime soon...
2026-07-17 01:49:16
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cgmark
Marcos :
he better make more sons/daughters 🗿
2026-07-20 01:03:51
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hopisan
hopisan :
This is not entirely accurate. Under Oracle, MySQL (the free version) got ahead of MariaDB. One thing I saw was that it developed much better query optimization. So Oracle did more than keep it alive.
2026-06-06 21:40:36
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gaagngurung
Gaagn ཏམུ :
Switched to pg don't wanna go back to mysql maridb or any enterprise DB
2026-06-14 20:40:22
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