> Enterprise Database software is extremely sticky. So what I said in my original post, jack up the licensing the costs
Nope, that doesn't make any sense in my view. Let's say e.g. the cost of both MariaDB Enterprise and MaxScale is jacked up significantly. Then customers can easily switch back to MariaDB Community Server, and/or get paid support and products from Oracle MySQL, or Percona, or ProxySQL, or Pythian, or Vettabase, or Mydbops, or any number of other companies with significant experience in this exact space.
> and cut expenses
Prior to this sale, MariaDB plc already had major rounds of layoffs, discontinued several product lines, and spun off their cloud database. What do you suggest the new owner is going to cut, specifically?
> money paid is NOT going to the company
That is blatantly obvious, why do you keep repeating it? No one in this thread is saying the money goes to the company. That's not how acquisitions ever work!
> I'll point out the new CEO, while having engineering degrees, seems to be more a business type person.
Looks to me like a very similar profile to their two previous CEOs, except the outgoing one didn't have an engineering degree!
Nope, that doesn't make any sense in my view. Let's say e.g. the cost of both MariaDB Enterprise and MaxScale is jacked up significantly. Then customers can easily switch back to MariaDB Community Server, and/or get paid support and products from Oracle MySQL, or Percona, or ProxySQL, or Pythian, or Vettabase, or Mydbops, or any number of other companies with significant experience in this exact space.
> and cut expenses
Prior to this sale, MariaDB plc already had major rounds of layoffs, discontinued several product lines, and spun off their cloud database. What do you suggest the new owner is going to cut, specifically?
> money paid is NOT going to the company
That is blatantly obvious, why do you keep repeating it? No one in this thread is saying the money goes to the company. That's not how acquisitions ever work!
> I'll point out the new CEO, while having engineering degrees, seems to be more a business type person.
Looks to me like a very similar profile to their two previous CEOs, except the outgoing one didn't have an engineering degree!