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Wordstar from MicroPro.

Remember WordPerfect?

 

[ncted]

MariaDB has become more of a work-alike since it was forked 15 years ago. Think DBXL .vs. dBASE where they were substantially interoperable but independently optimized.

Meh. As long as you aren't doing anything too exotic with Oracle's closed-source modules, they are interchangeable. MariaDB also performs better in general and is designed to be a drop-in replacement. It is easier to migrate to MariaDB than the other way around though.

 

[harshness]

Remember WordPerfect?

WordPerfect killed Wordstar. I used it for many years until too many of our business partners were using Microsoft Word and its ever-changing file formats. I remember being able to cold boot an 80286 machine and be ready to go in Word Perfect in around 12 seconds. WordPerfect was a real word-processing program that did what you instructed it to do.

I've been using LibreOffice for a long time now if for no other reason than avoiding Microsoft's ill-conceived Ribbon.

I miss the utility of well-chosen function keys.

 

[harshness]

It is easier to migrate to MariaDB than the other way around though.

The engines are sufficiently different that the configurations for one may not have the same (or any) impact on the other.

Not having to worry about whether you should be using an Enterprise license or not makes MariaDB more attractive and thus favored by distro assemblers who don't want their patrons to be hamstrung.