[News] MySQL CEO Dismisses Microsoft's FUD, Says OSS is Unstoppable, Approaches IPO

[Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Open source here to stay, says MySQL CEO Marten Mickos

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| "Microsoft can use [its] money in other ways to threaten free and open-source 
| software, and I'm sure that they have," Mickos said. "But I think we will see 
| less of that in the future because they've done it and it hasn't helped 
| them." Many Microsoft customers use open-source products and find it 
| challenging when the company makes it harder to integrate Microsoft products 
| and open-source software, he said.     
| 
| "I'm not too worried," Mickos said. "This open source movement is so strong 
| that nothing can stop it anymore."  
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=operating_systems&articleId=9027662&taxonomyId=89&intsrc=kc_top
http://tinyurl.com/2rjmtn

MySQL Set For IPO?

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| Investor says maker of crucial Web 2.0 component has reached the stage when 
| the world expects it to list. 
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http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=22940&hed=MySQL+Set+For+IPO%20&sector=Industries&subsector=Computing

It seems like flatfish has moved on to trolling my site where comments like the
following can happily just be deleted..

"What’s interesting here is how much money is changing hands the other way
around. Who’s leading the $$$ push against Microsoft? Sun? RedHat? Canonical?
For example, who funds this blog? Hard questions, but they need to be asked.
Searching for ‘Roy Scheztowitz’ on Google reveals some disturbing things."

The convenience of being able to delete the abuse...