MySQL founder's latest MariaDB release takes "enterprise" features open-source

Is anyone using the SphinxSE search engine integration with MariaDB?

I help support a rather old MySQL-based site that uses Sphinx and there's some scrappy PHP code glueing it all together, and this:

http://kb.askmonty.org/en/about-sphinxse

seems like a great setup, but it would be rough to re-factor this old app.. but we'll probably do it...

I've seen some usage in production of SphinxSE. If you find problems, why not ask at the http://kb.askmonty.org?

Most people who were using MySQL at all have since moved to PostgreSQL and then wondering what they'd been doing all this time.

The problem isn't Maria but Monty: Why should you back up someone who sold MySQL so that it finally could become Oracle's booty?

I don't get it. The article states:

> Widenius, who lives in Helsinki, left Sun in 2009 when he became dissatisfied with the approach the company was taking to MySQL.

So Monty left Sun way before Oracle's acquisition. How could he be blamed for that acquisition? IIUC he forked because he thought Sun and MySQL license were not up to his views of open source, so it's not like he sold and cared less. If I read history correctly, he's actually someone to back up.