Microsoft has moved a step forward to serving the open source community. Today, at Microsoft Connect(); event, the company has announced that they have joined the MariaDB Foundation as a platinum member.
In an
announcement, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President of Cloud and Enterprise Group, Scott Guthrie, stated,
“As part of this membership, we’re committed to working closely with the foundation, actively contributing to MariaDB and the MariaDB community. We’re also announcing we’ll be delivering a preview of Azure Database for MariaDB, which will bring the fully managed service capabilities to MariaDB. Developers can sign up for the upcoming preview for Azure Database for MariaDB.”
This sponsorship will obviously help the Foundation in its goals to support continuity and open collaboration in the MariaDB ecosystem, and to drive adoption, serving an ever-growing community of users and developers.
Source: Microsoft
In a
blog post, Microsoft’s Tobias Ternstorm informed that now, the company is bringing MariaDB to Azure which will be available in the upcoming Azure Preview.
"We are excited to bring MariaDB to Azure and offer you more choices. We'd love to get your feedback and learn how we can continue to make it better for you. I'm looking forward to seeing what we can achieve together!"
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