• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    27 days ago

    I’ve never heard of K1.

    Should we expect MariaDB enshittification to ensure?

    Strategic investment aims to accelerate MariaDB’s mission to deliver innovative, scalable database solutions with new executive leadership to drive the next phase of growth

    I’m not reading that as a “no” :(

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      27 days ago

      MariaDB is actually two separate entities: The company MariaDB and the MariaDB organization. The company sells enterprise licenses and support, and the organization manages the actual development. So there’s a little separation that will at least slow the enshittification.

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        27 days ago

        Ah, good to know.

        I did know there were two sides of it (we explored MariaDB Enterprise at work, but unfortunately it didn’t pan out).

        Any more, I just assume one company buying any other always results in a worse experience post-sale.

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          27 days ago

          MariaDB tried to go public a while back and their stock price tanked immediately and never recovered. If they hadn’t gotten acquired I imagine they’d have gone out of business.

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      27 days ago

      How the fuck do you “accelerate” something they are already achieving?

      Not sure how much of a future it can have even if you slap on some “speed”.