Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [MariaDB Announce] MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.12 GA and MariaDB 10.1.0 Alpha now available

Le 4 juil. 2014 à 13:16, Jim Seymour <jseymour@LinxNet.com> a écrit :

> [snip]
> > *  Some distros have already moved from MySql to MariaDb
> [snip]
>
> How does a distro "move from" one dbms to another?  Admittedly: I
> don't keep track of all the latest & greatest stuff on the FOSS world
> (I presume MariaDb is FOSS?), but I'd never heard of MariaDb before.
> Furthermore: Considering how even PostgreSQL, which has, technically
> speaking, been around *longer* than MySQL, can gain little traction
> as a backend dbms for many projects, I would think it would be
> suicide for any distro to try to "move from" MySQL to such a thing.

Because MariaDB is a fork, so very compatible with MySQL (at least in the first versions) in the 
same way Libreoffice is very similar to Apache OpenOffice.
At the moment of the fork, it's very easy to go one way instead of the other one. A MySQL to 
PostgreSQL transition is not as simple.

Best regards,

Vitorio
-- 
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted