It was quite unfortunate to hear, because having a company related to the RDBMS project seemed like a nice thing and it lent credibility to MariaDB appearing like a stable and viable supported alternative to MySQL.
I mean, PostgreSQL exists, sure, but it's always nice to have to have other options and alternatives (modern MySQL/MariaDB are both passable for many use cases).
It was quite unfortunate to hear, because having a company related to the RDBMS project seemed like a nice thing and it lent credibility to MariaDB appearing like a stable and viable supported alternative to MySQL.
I mean, PostgreSQL exists, sure, but it's always nice to have to have other options and alternatives (modern MySQL/MariaDB are both passable for many use cases).