Category: Press Releases
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IBM continues as a Platinum Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation
We are delighted to announce that IBM is continuing its support of MariaDB Foundation as a Platinum Sponsor.
IBM’s sponsorship brings together two major enterprise computing platforms, IBM® Power® and IBM Z®, reflecting a shared interest in ensuring that MariaDB Server remains available, well tested and relevant across a broad range of architectures and demanding production environments.
Open source across enterprise platforms
MariaDB Server is used in environments ranging from individual developer machines and cloud infrastructure to business-critical enterprise systems. […]
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QUAPE Joins the MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor
We’re pleased to welcome QUAPE as a Silver Sponsor. Their focus on high-performance infrastructure supports the Foundation’s work on the MariaDB buildbot and our commitment to open, dependable database innovation.
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MariaDB Server will be the default database in cPanel
Good news! cPanel, one of the leading control panels in the hosting world has just announced that they are going to make MariaDB Server the default database when installing new cPanel instances. This change is slated to occur in version 122 of cPanel & WHM, coming in Q3 of 2024. We at MariaDB Foundation are very happy about this decision and are looking forward to continuous collaboration, to the benefit of our users and the MariaDB Server project.
We think […]
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MariaDB Foundation Announces AWS as a Diamond Sponsor
HELSINKI — 4 October 2023 – The MariaDB Foundation, the global contact point for collaboration on the MariaDB Server, announced today that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has joined the Foundation as its first Diamond sponsor in order to continue the mission of openness, adoption and continuity for the MariaDB open source project.
According to the DB-Engines ranking list, the MariaDB Server is the third most popular open source relational database and ninth most popular relational database overall. This sponsorship will […]
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New Sponsor: Schaffhausen Institute of Technology
Good news from and for MariaDB Foundation: in Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT), we have a new Platinum Sponsor. With the additional funds and with the insights provided by Serguei Beloussov, who will work with the MariaDB Foundation on the board level, we expect to improve our ability to further the MariaDB Foundation mission related to our values of Openness, Adoption, and Continuity.
Introducing SIT
This event marks a first in our work with sponsors, given that our top-level sponsor […]
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MariaDB Foundation Endorses the SaveDotOrg Campaign to Protect the .org Domain
The MariaDB Foundation is proud to put its name behind the SaveDotOrg campaign. We urge the Internet Society (ISOC) to cancel the sale of the Public Interest Registry (PIR) to Ethos Capital. NGOs and non-profits rely on the .org domain, and the proposed sale to a private equity firm puts this pillar of internet freedom at significant risk.
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Press Release: MariaDB Server University Program Launch
Indonesia to Lead World Wide University Database Education Initiative
Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 6 Sep 2019: MariaDB Foundation and APTISI (the Association of Private Higher Education Institutions Indonesia) collaborate to launch the MariaDB Server University Programme, providing free education material for universities across Indonesia and worldwide.
The need for database education in Indonesia
With millions of university level students in the IT sector alone, Indonesia needs a comprehensive education programme for databases, for database administrators, for developers of applications, and for developers […]
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Tencent Games becomes a Gold Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation
The MariaDB Foundation today announces that Tencent Games – online game developer and operator by Tencent Interactive Entertainment – has become a Gold Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation. As one of the world’s largest video game companies, Tencent Games shows the way to the ceaselessly-growing video game industry by supporting the open source development of MariaDB.
The sponsorship will help the Foundation in its mission to ensure continuity and open collaboration in the MariaDB ecosystem, and to drive adoption, serving an […]