Officially, Red Hat still isn't saying that MariaDB, instead of Oracle's MySQL, will be its default database management system in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. But off-the-record people close to Red ...

Fedora Linux's developers are considering replacing MySQL with MariaDB. That, in turn, might lead to Red Hat abandoning MySQL for MariaDB.

Red Hat will switch the default database in its enterprise distribution, RHEL, from MySQL to MariaDB, when version 7 is released.

MariaDB, the open source database that offers a “drop-in replacement for MySQL”, is trying to make it easier for customers to switch from Oracle.

Ansell is over 100 years old and sells protection solutions to companies all the world over. It had to turn to MariaDB to ensure business continuity.