Blog-City uses open source MySQL
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| Like many organisations, Blog-City relies heavily on its database for its
| daily business. But interestingly, Blog-City has chosen to underpin its
| business with the free and open source database MySQL, which is entirely
| community supported.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/01/24/229079/blog-city-uses-open-source-mysql.htm
Sun's MySQL Move: A Win-Win
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| Gordon Haff, a senior IT advisor with consultancy Illuminata, has a less
| exuberant take on Sun's move. He sees it as a good thing for Sun as well as a
| great thing for MySQL.
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http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=21912
How Consolidation Affects Open Source
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| The open source model, then, serves as an effective bulwark against a company
| buying a competitor to take it out of the market. It also provides an escape
| hatch for projects that are snapped up, continued, but mismanaged. That's
| actually a pretty significant advantage for users and customers over the
| proprietary model.
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http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4891
Open Source Business Practices and Conversion Rate Myths
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| With the Sun Microsystem recent move to acquire MySQL AB, open source
| business models will be a topic of much discussion again. MySQL AB, like Red
| Hat, has always been one of the examples everyone points to for how an open
| source business should be run. One of the oft quoted statistics of the MySQL
| business is "one customer for every thousand users". This number is then
| quickly put into context as "probably too big" because MySQL is available in
| so many places that trying to count downloads and users becomes impossible.
| When JBoss was acquired by Red Hat, the publicly acknowledged conversion
| rates were 3% (JBoss) and 10% (Red Hat). People start making assumptions
| about business models based on driving downloads and user community size. And
| that's where the problem starts.
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http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2008/01/open-source-bus.html
Related:
How and why MySQL grabbed $1bn in five weeks
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| "It has been like walking around in a candy story," Mickos said, after
| looking over Sun's vast computing labs.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/18/open_season_10/
In a Vortex
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| In a vortex. That's the only way to describe the past thirty days, during
| which we closed out our second quarter, and put together the transaction to
| acquire MySQL. How'd it all start?
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| "That'll never happen, I've been trying for years." That's what I told Rich
| Green (EVP, Software at Sun) about six months ago in response to his
| assertion, "if there were one company I'd love to acquire, it'd be MySQL.
| They're an amazing company." Why'd I say it was impossible?
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| For nearly five years, I've been getting together for dinner with Marten
| Mickos, MySQL's CEO, catching up on the industry, chatting about trends and
| business models, and just as the dessert was about to be served... I'd
| say, "geez, we have so much in common, Marten, we see the world so similarly,
| what would you think about becoming a part of Sun?"
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http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/in_a_vortex
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