Michael “Monty” Widenius, the founder and creator of MySQL, who now runs Monty Program Ab has been for long battling hard to save MySQL from the impending rot it could suffer under the hands of Oracle.
The story goes that Oracle plans to acquire Sun Microsystems who apparently owns MySQL after purchasing it a few years [...]

Seeing its slightly over a month since MariaDB 1.5 Beta was released for Linux and a couple of days now since the Windows Win32 Version came into being I felt it prudent to mention a little a bit about it for now.
So to start off I’d like to mention about it’s history. For starters [...]