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SkySQL raises $20M in Intel-led round to push MariaDB deeper into the enterprise

on October 22, 2013

Adoption by Google, Wikipedia and some of the top Linux distros is all good and fine, but SkySQL really wants to see the MariaDB database get picked up in the enterprise. $20 million should help that happen.

The ex-MySQL gang is back together, pushing MariaDB as a neutral ‘bridge’

on April 24, 2013

MySQL and MariaDB services company SkySQL has brought Monty Widenius and other MariaDB players on board. The result, says CEO Patrik Sallner, will be “a new form of database platform that ties together other databases.”