MariaDB living in interesting times

An old Chinese curse says "May you live in interesting times".
Fortunately this can be taken both as a curse or as a blessing.

For MariaDB this has definitely been a blessing the last few months.

Since we announced the MariaDB foundation in December 2012 a lot has happened:

• Wikipedia is moving to MariaDB.
• Mozilla is also now using MariaDB.
• Fedora and OpenSuse is replacing MySQL with MariaDB in their distributions.
• Chakra is also moving to MariaDB.
• We have released LGPL version of the MariaDB/MySQL C and Java Connectors.

We will soon be able to announce that also some of the other very big Internet companies have moved to MariaDB. (stay tuned :)

The above means that the installation base of MariaDB will increase from about one million to 5-10 million within this year. You can find here a full updated lists of all distributions that supports MariaDB.

We are really living in interesting times!

Happy Chinese New Year to you all!