When the community GNU/Linux distributions Fedora and openSUSE recently announced that they would be switching their default database management system from MySQL to MariaDB, one man in Finland would have had a very hearty laugh.
That man is Ulf Michael Widenius, better known as Monty, one of three founders of the original MySQL company, and the man who created MariaDB as a fork of MySQL back in 2009. (The pic above is the logo of the MariaDB Foundation which was set up in December 2012 to run the project.)
There are two reasons why Monty would be chuckling: one, he knows that the salad days are coming back again (though he probably has enough money to last for the next three generations), and, two, he has given his old foe, Oracle, a good punch in the snout.
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