Same here, first time I hear MariaDB has some corporation behind it, and now even IPO. I thought it is just community fork to avoid greedy Oracle. You just pull it from Linux distro repo or Docker and voila. Now I wonder is it going to end up like MySQL AB?
I hear you, I just mean I wouldn’t call that a corpse. It’s clearly providing utility. Similar to OSS over two decades making $0 ARR. I imagine it must’ve been hard to monetize given alternatives.
