Jedis wrote:My company will not go with software that won't receive updates
Well, XAMPP is not made for companies, so thats okay.
Jedis wrote:MariaDB is virtually unheard of in the corporate world.
Thats not true. MariaDB is used by many Hosters and big companies. Wikipedia and Google for example are two of the big players replacing their MySQL Databases by MariaDB.
MariaDB is more open source, gets quicker updates as MySQL. Many of the MySQL Enterprise functions are already included/rebuild in the free MariaDB version (for example performance enhancements).
So there are good reasons, even for companies, considering alternatives to MySQL.
But i can also understand if a company don't want to change a Database Management system which works for years now.