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.

IBM upgrading Gold to Platinum

Good news: IBM is upgrading their Gold sponsorship to Platinum!

Our trinity: Adoption, Openness, Continuity

The three pillars of MariaDB Foundation are Adoption, Openness, and Continuity.

Adoption means that we work towards MariaDB Server to be used everywhere, where you need databases. We think Open Source RDBMSes are the way to go, and we want you to choose MariaDB Server.

Openness means that we work towards making it easy for everyone to contribute towards making MariaDB Server the best Open Source RDBMS. Be it code, documentation, training materials, bug reports, feature requests.

Case IBM Power 10: A further step for MariaDB Server

Good news: This week, two of MariaDB Foundation’s sponsors – IBM and MariaDB plc – made an announcement that we believe to be good for both parties, as well as for the MariaDB Server user base. We humbly (and boldly) believe that this was enabled by MariaDB Foundation’s living by its core values of Adoption, Openness, and Continuity. 

Let me explain why, and start with the announcement itself:

MariaDB Enterprise Server Launches on IBM Power 10

MariaDB plc’s offering to its customers, MariaDB Enterprise Server, was launched for IBM Power 10. This was supported by a blog post from MariaDB plc (MariaDB Enterprise Server Launches on IBM Power10) and another by IBM (Announcing support for MariaDB Enterprise Server on IBM Power).