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[Clint Byrum <clint@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Excerpts from Reindl Harald's message of 2015-01-05 00:16:20 -0800:
> 
> Am 05.01.2015 um 07:52 schrieb Stewart Smith:
> > Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >> --On Thursday, December 04, 2014 11:11 PM +0000 Federico Razzoli
> >> <federico_raz@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> And I wrote:
> >>>
> >>> "In other words, distros that prefer MariaDB are unstable and not mature?
> >>> This post is offensive. Shame on this kind of marketing."
> >>>
> >>> But I don't think that these guys accept criticism. It's against their
> >>> religion.
> >>
> >> People still use mysql? ;)
> >
> > From Debian popcon:
> > mysql-server-core-5.5          43643
> > mysql-server-core-5.1          10584
> > mysql-server-5.1                9617
> > mysql-server-5.0                4001
> > mariadb-server                  1115
> > mariadb-server-core-10.0         644
> > mariadb-server-10.0              636
> > mariadb-server-5.5               588
> > drizzle                          106
> 
> the world is not Debian/Ubuntu nor has free software spy-functions on by 
> default and sou you have no real conuts
> 
> > If we go by
> > http://mariadb.org/feedback_plugin/stats/server_count_by_month/ then we
> > see that Maria is hedging towards 6,000 installs reporting back.
> 
> RHEL//CentOS7/Fedora are using MariaDB as *default* MySQL replacement 
> and likely exceed that 6000 installs, i personally count 15 and they are 
> not reporting back - why should they?

The question wasn't "Is MySQL winning?" It was "People still use
mysql?".

Stewart answered it: Yes.