Updated Google is migrating its MySQL systems over to MariaDB, allowing the search company to get away from the Oracle-backed open source database. The news came out at the Extremely Large Databases (XLDB) conference in Stanford, California on Wednesday, one month after El Reg reported that Google had assigned one of its engineers to the MariaDB Foundation. News of…

Well Dang… I always felt Oracles ‘purchase’ of Sun and thus MySQL will eventually have a negative effect on MySQL. I started to feel that today when I couldn’t download the new version of MySQL Workbench without signing up as an Oracle Developer… Then I started reading the MySQL Wikipedia page about the history and…