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Oracle Losing Its MySQL Grip to MariaDB

Posted by brideoflinux on · 6 comments
FOSS Force; By Christine Hall 		Mail this story
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When it comes to Oracle as caretaker of FOSS projects, users are voting with their feet.

The company that already very quickly lost control of OpenOffice when most of the project’s developers bolted, formed the Document Foundation and forked the code to create LibreOffice, is now in danger of losing another open source jewel it inherited when it took over Sun. LibreOffice, as you know, is now the defacto office suite of choice among Linux users and is rapidly gaining traction in the Windows world as well. OpenOffice is pretty much only a memory.

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Comments (6)

DrDubious ·
Are the pages on this site coming up without the "content" for anyone but me?
Francy ·
same here........no content !
BernardSwiss ·
I tried three or four stories on the home page, same problem. Header/banner, some side-panel stuff, but no story.
djohnston ·
Hmmm. I emailed Christine about that on Monday. The main page was coming up blank. I was about to email her again when I checked the story link. The content is there now.

Maybe something was misconfigured.

BernardSwiss ·
Yep. It seems to be working now.

(It wasn't yet, when I posted earlier.)
Bob_Robertson ·
Maybe they had a problem with their database back-end.

I wonder what they're using? Oracle?

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