Category Archives: Foundation
This week, I turn 50 — my golden jubilee, if we’re speaking in royal terms.
Once upon a time, a much younger woman wandered into the magical forest of open source. The creatures were friendly, the quests exciting, and every day promised new adventures. She thought the story would end with “…and they all lived happily ever after.”
But any Queen worth her crown knows — that’s where the real work begins.
Because after the confetti settles and the palace gates close, someone still has to fix the drawbridge, negotiate with neighbouring kingdoms, and explain to the court jester why his “harmless little prank” brought down production.
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The MariaDB Foundation is proud to welcome Virtuozzo as a Silver Sponsor, reinforcing a shared commitment to building an open, sovereign, and innovation-driven digital future for Europe.
Virtuozzo is a pioneer in virtualization and cloud infrastructure software, with deep European roots and global reach. Their support of the MariaDB Foundation is not just a sponsorship — it’s a statement of strategic alignment between two organizations shaping the backbone of an independent European technology ecosystem.
This partnership brings together two essential layers of infrastructure — Virtuozzo powering the cloud and MariaDB powering the data.
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The Ford–Cadillac Parable
In 1902, Henry Ford’s second car company was taken over by investors and renamed Cadillac. The designs were his. The engineering was his. But the brand? That now belonged to someone else.
So Ford walked away and started fresh.
Years later, even as Ford cars became wildly successful, people kept asking:
“Are you the guy who builds Cadillacs?”
To which he had to answer—over and over again:
“No. I’m not building Cadillacs anymore.”
It took years before the public truly grasped the difference.
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We are thrilled to announce that Rumahweb, one of Indonesia’s most trusted and long-standing web hosting providers, has joined the MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor.
Founded in 2002, Rumahweb has built a reputation for reliability, innovation, and a strong commitment to customer support. With a wide range of offerings — including shared hosting, VPS, cloud hosting, and domain services — Rumahweb empowers individuals, SMEs, and large enterprises alike to succeed in the digital space. Backed by 24/7 professional technical assistance, they have become a pillar of Indonesia’s internet infrastructure.
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We’re delighted to welcome Releem as the newest Silver Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation!
Releem is a database performance management platform that helps teams ensure consistent and reliable database performance through continuous profiling, configuration tuning, and SQL query optimization. It brings together everything needed to streamline monitoring and performance improvements — all in one place.
With support for MariaDB, MySQL, Percona, and AWS Aurora, Releem works seamlessly across on-premise deployments (Linux, Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud-managed environments such as AWS RDS.
“We built Releem to simplify database performance management and eliminate the guesswork from tuning and optimization.
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We are thrilled to welcome Scarf as a Gold Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation!
Scarf’s commitment to improving open source distribution and visibility aligns closely with our mission to ensure the continued openness, innovation, and sustainability of MariaDB Server. As a platform that helps open-source projects understand and grow their user base, Scarf brings unique value to the ecosystem—not just through sponsorship, but through actionable insights that benefit the broader community.
For the MariaDB Foundation, understanding who uses MariaDB—and how, where, and why—is key to making better decisions. Scarf’s privacy conscious analytics help us move beyond assumptions and anecdotes, giving us real-world data to guide our outreach, improve our documentation, tailor our events, and strengthen our developer ecosystem.
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Legend says Queen Guinevere once presided over a court where knights debated honor and destiny. In my version, the knights bring code diffs, sponsorship agreements, and opinions on open source governance. There’s less jousting, more Zoom calls — and while I lack a crown, I do wield a formidable calendar and an unshakable belief in collaboration.
As I reflect on the May 2025 meeting of the MariaDB Foundation Board, one truth stands tall (in shining armor): the MariaDB kingdom is not divided. It is uniting.
Harmony in the Realm
The collaboration between MariaDB Foundation and MariaDB plc has never been more dynamic — or more impactful.
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I suppose not all of my readers have a first hand (or even second hand) experience of the girls-night-in. So let me shed some light on this sacred ritual of tea, sympathy and soul-baring conversation that zigzags from the ridiculous to the profound and back again in under 30 seconds.
There a few eternal mysteries that always seem to come up –
Like:
“Why do I have nothing to wear when my wardrobe is clearly full of clothes?”
And:
“Why does cat food smell weirdly delicious?”
(Okay, I do know the answer to that one: stop crash-dieting already!
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