Fedora Looks To Replace MySQL With MariaDB
Found on Phoronix on Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Out of fears that Oracle is making MySQL a more closed software project and not being happy with the overall direction of this widely-used database software, Fedora developers are looking at replacing MySQL with MariaDB in Fedora 19.
MariaDB is a fork of MySQL that maintains API/ABI compatibility and was started by some of the original MySQL developers. From the get-go, MariaDB has been more community oriented than Oracle's MySQL and to serve as a drop-in replacement for upstream MySQL.
Everything Oracle touches blows up. Java is constantly in the news thanks to security issues, OpenOffice forked into LibreOffice, MySQL forked into MariaDB and ZFS is pretty much dead, just like OpenSolaris.