![]() ![]() ![]() "We were the first to be a persistent technology using Kubernetes. The successive rounds of investment – which have included Alibaba and the European Investment Bank – have driven engineering efforts to strengthen deployment and applications designed for other databases with its system. That's where the slight contradiction is – that the same people who want things free also want to have very nice vacations." I think we've struck an incredible balance. This is the type of friction and challenges you have in moving from an ideological-bound to a commercial-bound enterprise. Monty has it other programmers in our own group – they're never going to be comfortable when you move away from free, open source software with no pricing. "Any company and open source that has ideological roots like MariaDB is always going to have issues with the commercialization strategy. Speaking to The Register at MariaDB's OpenWorks conference in New York last week, CEO Howard said the company was now faced with finding the balance between its open source roots and the needs of investors and lenders. Widenius continues to work for MariaDB on a contract basis and is involved with the open source community surrounding it, but is no longer the company's CTO. Critics contend MariaDB's approach is not truly open source because it does not allow users or developers to do what they want with the code. Meanwhile, other software, like the MariaDB Enterprise Server, is available on the MariaDB Enterprise Server is also GPL v2. MariaDB has adopted the Business Source License (BSL) for commercial products such as MaxScale database proxy. MySQL had been part of Sun Microsystems since 2008, but when Oracle bought Sun in 2010, Widenius forked the code to a new open source database, MariaDB. I’m always a representative of the Boston Celtics”), I am reminded of the famous David Foster Wallace quote: “There’s always a Mormon around … trying your patience with unsolicited kindness.MariaDB was sharded out of MySQL, the open source relational database created by Michael "Monty" Widenius in 1995. Fancy that.Īs for the hoopsters, one would want to share former Celtics star and president of basketball operations Danny Ainge’s super-positive view of the 2022-2023 roster: “This team found joy.” Because Ainge is an “out” Mormon (“I’m always a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Where is the disciplinarian Bruce Cassidy now? Um, in the Stanley Cup finals with a team younger than the Bruins. ![]() “My face is my mask,” was how Worsley explained his reluctance to wear a mask and his numerous trips to the dentist.īut I digress. I remember eating cereal from a box with legendary Canadian goalie Gump Worsley on the front panel. What are we running here, a hockey team or the Self-Realization Fellowship? Speaking of warm and supportive, you have to chuckle knowing that the Bruins fired coach Bruce Cassidy last year for not being, well, warm and supportive “Cassidy’s tough stances with young players caused friction,” the Globe reported at the time. Bill always has warm, supportive words for his colleagues, in this case the inept journeyman coach Joe Judge: “Yeah, he’ll do whatever I ask him to do.” Bill Belichick, the man whom sports columnist Jason Gay calls the Grumpy Lobster Boat Captain, is waxing grumpier than ever, freighted down with two coaches integral to last season’s ghastly 8-9 losing record. ![]()
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