Here come the hot IPOs of '08
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| Open-source, more a technology movement than a technology innovation, is
| another category being welcomed by the Street, as is virtualization, the
| ability to have one computer essentially act like several.
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http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/10/markets/ipo/copeland_ipowatch.fortune/?postversion=2008011012
Will Software Businesses Really Move Toward the Middle in '08?
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| The real challenge continues to be, how can we succeed without closing our
| source? Only a few companies have managed to do this, with almost all of them
| being small fries that most people never heard of. But it is possible to do
| business this way. I would suggest that, eventually, we will see more and
| more companies discover how to develop software without restricting users'
| freedom to use, study, modify, and redistribute the programs. Meanwhile, for
| 2008, You can bet we'll see a lot more businesses learning to respect users'
| freedom.
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http://blue-gnu.biz/content/will_software_businesses_really_move_toward_middle_039_08
MySQL will probably reach Wall Street soon. Trolltech, Red Hat and many others
are already out there in the big markets.
Related:
Virgin Mobile Implements MySQL Enterprise
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| Virgin Mobile, a leading Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), has
| implemented a MySQL Enterprise Platinum subscription to manage its data using
| the world's most popular open source database.
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http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/press-release/release_2008_02.html
MySQL Releases Database Connector Beta
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| Zack Urlocker, executive vice president of products at MySQL, said the new
| Unicode support makes it possible to deal with virtually every language on
| the planet—even made-up ones such as Klingon, the language of the alien
| Klingon species on "Star Trek."
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2234144,00.asp
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.
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| "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§or=Industries&subsector=Computing
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