Talk:Percona

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Percona has a lot of relevance to the MySQL-space. Independent of the products they release, they are the largest third party company around MySQL, and a number of features in MySQL 5.5 have been credited to them. The largest annual MySQL conference is also hosted by Percona. morgo (talk) 18:42, 24 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

I've undeleted as a stub; there's no question that Percona meets our notability bar, if not by all that much. Much of the previous version read like a press clipping or catalogue, though. I've excised the references that simply pointed at press releases, and this article can probably use a couple more sources.

Disclosure: I have been (indirectly) asked to reexamine that deletion by someone involved with Percona. — Coren ^(talk) 19:35, 24 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

Agree on press clipping nature of earlier version - appreciate what you have salvaged here. I've created Percona Server to cover the database product. I suggest keeping these separate as Percona has relevance external to Percona Server due to the conference, blog, role as largest third party vendor for MySQL. morgo (talk) 19:45, 24 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

This is tdieds and I'm Percona's community manager. Someone has once again completely deleted the Percona page so I changed this one to "Percona" from "Percona Server." I am trying to abide by the rules here, folks. I find it interesting that one of our competitors, MariaDB, has a page very similar to Percona's old one yet perhaps because Wikipedia is a customer of theirs, they have full immunity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariadb I seek not a conflict but some advice and assistance on building the Percona page. tdieds (talk) 19:45, 16 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

To clarify, there is no such "immunity". One problem is it is hard to justify separate articles on the company and the product. MariaDB for example combines the two, which makes it easier to meet notability challenges. W Nowicki (talk) 18:24, 28 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Is the name of the company derived from the name Perkūnas, the Baltic god of thunder? The fact that two of the key personnel are from the former Soviet Union (though they appear to be ethnically Russian, not Baltic) suggests to me that it's not a crazy theory… but I can't find any specific mention of the origin of the name… —Moxfyre (ǝɹʎℲxoɯ | contrib) 01:20, 16 December 2018 (UTC)Reply