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.

MariaDB

General

K1 Investment Management on LinkedIn
OpenOcean on LinkedIn
MariaDB plc (MRDB) SEC Filings
MariaDB plc: SEC Filings
6sense: MariaDB
Marketwatch: MariaDB PLC - Market data
Macrotrends: MariaDB Revenue 2022-2023 | MRDB
Fintel: D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc. ownership in MRDB.WS
Fintel: RDB.WS (NYSE) - MariaDB plc Warrants
Oli Sennhauser, FromDual, 2023-11: Das relationale Open Source Datenbank Ökosystem - IT strategische Gedanken, MariaDB plc – Geschichte

News

Paul Sawers, TechCrunch. 2024-10-12: How do you solve a problem like MariaDB? Cozy up to the community, says new CEO
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.
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.
Crunchbase, 2024-09-13: MariaDB acquired by K1 Investment Management
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lindsay Clark, TheRegister, 2024-09-10 16:02 UTC: Private equity commits MariaDB takeover transaction Post-IPO chapter ends after SQL biz shed jobs, products in bid to find buyer
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.
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
MariaDB plc, 2024-09-10: K1 Acquires MariaDB, a Leading Database Software Company, and Appoints New CEO
SPAC News, 2024-03-29: MariaDB Receives Takeover Bid
Anthony Duignan-Cabrera, Silicon Valley Business Journal: 2024-02-22: MariaDB could go private again following SPAC merger and possible takeover bid
Alex Wilhelm, TechCrunch, 2024-02-20: MariaDB’s potential take-private deal is an indictment of 2021’s SPAC mania
Lindsay Clark, TheRegister, 2024-02-20: MariaDB receives offer to go private more than year after disastrous IPO $37.3M bid significantly down from SPAC flotation valued at $672M
Paul Sawers, TechCrunch, 2024-02-19: Struggling database company MariaDB could be taken private in $37M deal
Lindsay Clark, The Register, 2023-10-13: MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure, bags $26.5M loan to cushion fall Strategic DBaaS and distributed back end jettisoned after years of promotion
businesswire, 2023-06-30: MariaDB Receives NYSE Continued Listing Standards Notice
businesswire, 2023-05-30: Paul O’Brien named CEO and Board Member, and other executive additions
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.
Lindsay Clark, The Register, 2023-05-21: Private equity offer for MariaDB gets thumbsup from shareholders From SPAC and back as 68% say yes
businesswire, 2023-05-08: MariaDB Announces Second Quarter Fiscal 2023 Financial Results
Lindsay Clark, The Register, 2023-04-18: MariaDB cuts jobs, repeats ‘going concern’ warning to stock market New CFO sees interesting in-tray at 20 percent year-on-year growth database company
Mike Elgan, Computerworld, 2023-04-14: Why remote work is the opportunity of the century for cities
Imashadowphantom, Hacker News, 2023-04-06: MariaDB.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org
Imashadowphantom, Hacker News, 2023-04-05: MariaDB.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org
Imashadowphantom on medium.com, 2023-04-03: MariaDB.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org (PDF)
US SEC FORM 8-K, 2023-04-01: MariaDB plc
MariaDB plc, 2023-02-21: MariaDB Investor Presentation
Jaime Hampton: Datanami, 2022-12-21: MariaDB Goes Public with Closing of SPAC Deal
Cromwell Schubarth, Silicon Valley Business Journal, 2022-12-19: Redwood City database provider MariaDB plunges nearly 40% in NYSE debut after SPAC merger
businesswire, 2022-12-19: MariaDB Completes Merger and Lands on NYSE as “MRDB” MariaDB Ordinary Shares and Warrants to Begin Trading December 19, 2022
Rebecca Hill, TheRegister, 2018-11-13, 09:04 UTC: Michael Howard: Embrace of open source is destroying ‘artificial definitions’ of legacy vendors MariaDB boss says IPO is part of his 3-year plan
Monty Widenius, 2009-02-05: Time to move on

MySQL

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