Avi Miller <avi.miller@gmail.com> writes:
And the flip side is the MySQL has gotten exponentially better since we bought Sun, with releases being fully tested and certified prior to release.
I'll chip in my 2c (check out the video from my LCA2014 talk for even more of my cents): The current MySQL releases are easily the best ones ever to come out of any entity that has produced MySQL releases. An informed guess is that there is at least an order of magnitude more people working on MySQL than there is on MariaDB. It is Oracle corporate policy not to publish any information about security issues. This includes DoS, i.e. server crashes. There is absolutely no way in hell that a relatively tiny part of the company (MySQL group) is changing that, even though it's stupid r.e. open source software. The rest of the test suite is still open, it has grown at a steady rate since MySQL was under Oracle. There are more tests now than there ever have been before, and it's still growing. -- Stewart Smith