[ralph84]

> It's actively used by many companies in production

The problem is not many of them want to pay for it. $40 million in ARR after 13 years and $227 million in funding isn't great.

[siquick]

I didn’t even know you could pay for it

[imhoguy]

Same here, first time I hear MariaDB has some corporation behind it, and now even IPO. I thought it is just community fork to avoid greedy Oracle. You just pull it from Linux distro repo or Docker and voila. Now I wonder is it going to end up like MySQL AB?

[karmicthreat]

I don't even know why I would want to pay for it.

[nickstinemates]

They sell support. Source: I was an executive there for 6 months. It was an experience.

[jamesfinlayson]

Does the paid support help decode the useless error messages?

[nickstinemates]

Yep. Definitely. Less confusion is a result of paid support.

[mardifoufs]

Tell us more! Please

[nickstinemates]

What would you like to know?

[mardifoufs]

Is there a reason why revenue figures are so low? Considering some other db products seem to be doing fine?

[sanjayio]

I hear you, I just mean I wouldn’t call that a corpse. It’s clearly providing utility. Similar to OSS over two decades making $0 ARR. I imagine it must’ve been hard to monetize given alternatives.