Christof Leisinger, InfoSperber, 2024-09-15: Die «Heuschrecken» gefährden das Finanzsystem. Private-Equity-Fonds prahlen mit ihrem Erfolg. Kritiker behaupten, sie plündern unter enormen Risiken schamlos die Allgemeinheit.
Paul Barker, InfoWorld, 2023-05-22: MariaDB plc: Shareholders speak, but execs are quiet With losses in decline, the next step will be to hear what plans its new owners have for the open source RDBMS provider.
MariaDB plc, 2023-12-14: MariaDB Finalizes Spinoff of SkySQL Newly formed company SkySQL Inc. acquires rights to SkySQL database-as-a-service (DBaaS) product
K1 Investment Management, PR Newswire, 2024-09-10 09:00 ET: Acquires MariaDB, a Leading Database Software Company, and Appoints New CEO Strategic investment aims to accelerate MariaDB’s mission to deliver innovative, scalable database solutions with new executive leadership to drive the next phase of growth
Paul Sawers, TechCrunch, 2024-09-10 06:15 PDT: MariaDB goes private with new CEO as K1 closes acquisition MariaDB‘s short-lived tenure as a public company is all but over, as the struggling database business is now fully under the auspices of K1 Investment Management. MariaDB also announced a new CEO in former Micro Focus executive Rohit de Souza, who replaces Paul O’Brien after just 16 months in the hot seat in preparation for life as a private company.
Hosting Journalist, 2024-09-11: MariaDB Acquired by K1, Appoints New CEO K1 Investment Management, a global investor in small-cap enterprise software startups, has successfully completed its tender offer to acquire all issued common shares of MariaDB, a leading provider of enterprise database solutions. This strategic acquisition would position MariaDB for further growth in the enterprise sector, enabling it to continue offering scalable, innovative database solutions to clients worldwide.
Floris Hulshoff Pol, Techzine, 2024-09-11 13:00 CEST: MariaDB acquired by private investment company MariaDB was recently quietly acquired by private investment company K1 Investment Management. The acquisition follows rumors that the open-source database specialist was looking for a buyer due to disappointing results.
Mathis Lucas, Developpez.com, 2024-09-11 14:14 CEST: MariaDB a également annoncé la nomination d’un nouveau PDG Le fonds d’investissement K1 acquiert MariaDB et retire l’entreprise de logiciels de base de données en difficulté de la bourse, K1 Investment Management a annoncé avoir finalisé l’acquisition de MariaDB. Le fonds d’investissement californien n’a toutefois pas précisé le montant de l’opération. Ce rachat est censé permettre à MariaDB de renforcer sa présence sur le marché des entreprises et de continuer à fournir des solutions innovantes et évolutives à l’échelle mondiale. Le fournisseur de systèmes de gestion de base de données est en difficulté depuis plusieurs années, a dû abandonner certains de ses produits stratégiques et a supprimé 28 % de ses effectifs afin de rester à flot. Avec cette acquisition, l’entreprise s’est retirée de la bourse et a nommé un nouveau PDG.
Paul Barker, InfoWorld, 2024-09-12: What’s in the cards for MariaDB? Its new owners are releasing few details about future plans, but the new CEO does specialize in prepping firms for acquisition.
Kaj Arnö, Hosting Journalist, 2024-09-15: MariaDB Foundation CEO on Database Future, MySQL, AI, and Hetzner’s Role. Kaj Arnö, CEO of MariaDB Foundation, shares insights on the foundation’s mission to support open-source contributions to MariaDB Server and ensure broad adoption of relational databases. He highlights the foundation’s role in coordinating open-source efforts while emphasizing the benefits of openness and the importance of avoiding vendor lock-in.
Liza Podkamenna on medium.com, 2024-09-16, Paywall: MariaDB’s Future Under K1 Investment Management: A New Era of Growth and Innovation?. K1 Investment Management has completed its acquisition of MariaDB, a provider of database services and SaaS offerings built on the core open-source database managed by the MariaDB Foundation. The appointment of Rohit de Souza as CEO comes with announcements of upcoming product releases, sparking speculation about the company’s future.
WebWire, 2024-12-11: SkySQL Raises $6.6M to Bring Conversational AI to your Database - Backed by Eniac Ventures, Good Capital, and WTI, SkySQL delivers a fully managed, AI-powered, serverless database platform for MySQL and MariaDB workloads, available across all major clouds.
MariaDB plc, 2025-05-27: MariaDB Acquires Galera Cluster - Acquisition enables deeper integration of synchronous replication technology into MariaDB Enterprise Platform for high availability and scalability
