10 points
MySQL refugees = those who ran to MariaDB when MySQL was bought by 'Orrible and now need another new home. Accidentally, PostgreSQL has grown support for some of MySQL on recent versions.
10 points
Oracle is such a terrible company for their customers it makes a ton of sense to try to get them to switch to a less abusive company
5 points
Some of our customers rely on Oracle’s database system, because history. Sadly, we can’t teach them.
4 points
True, and I keep those folks in my prayers.
But if you’re on MySQL it’s a lot less of a lift to switch to MariaDB than it is to go to Postgres, even if Postgres is better in some ways.
