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
Nice video as well.
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/
A bright future for MySQL
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| MySQL is an example of a disruptive technology. At first, it was too puny for
| the proprietary databases to notice, and satisfied only small users. But its
| powers grew, and the size of the companies using it also increased. It cannot
| match the upper limits of DB2 capability at this point, but it will be
| interesting to see if and when that day comes. But it doesn’t have to; it is
| already transforming most of the database market. May Sun invest the money
| (and employ the open source software developers) to take it to the top.
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http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/01/17/a-bright-future-for-mysql/
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