When it comes to that little piece of software with a $0 price tag, just take a moment and ask yourself if it really is going to be free.  Yes, there are many perfectly valid use cases for using OSS software, but ensure you fully understand the risks and potential business imapact from an outage first.

Watch the replay of a webinar with our colleagues from Datavail and hosted by DBTA during which we discuss whether “free” is really good enough for business-critical MySQL database environments.

Database Administration is a tough, often ungrateful job. Especially if you run a 24/7 business-critical MySQL or MariaDB deployment.

Great SaaS - starts with great software. But not enough is said about the people and values behind great software; so that’s what I want to talk about here.

This is the first in a series of blog articles that will discuss the changing landscape of open source and money. Or more specifically open source databases and money. And even more specifically MySQL and its all variants (AWS Aurora, MariaDB, Percona Server, RDS/MySQL) and money...In general, there are the following type of companies in the MySQL commercial ecosystem, in order of total annual revenue and addressable market size.