MySQL CEO: it's tough for private open source firms
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| "As soon as the deal closed we immediately secured a big deal with a major
| European national police agency," said Mickos, now SVP database products at
| Sun. "Key to them choosing MySQL was that we are now part of a much larger
| public corporation. The deal wouldn't have happened when we were private."
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| Downloads of the firm's free, open source database have accelerated too, from
| around 50,000 a day before the deal was announced to around 60,000 per day
| now - 67,000 copies were downloaded on Monday.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2008/03/mysql_ceo_its_t.html
OpenOffice.org is downloaded over 4 million times a month (and also rising).
Related:
Sun does Google's dirty work on MySQL
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| Sun Microsystems will fine tune MySQL for some big-name customers unwilling
| to get their hands dirty supporting the open source database themselves.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/02/29/mysql_sun_google/
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/
Five Questions Facing Sun Micro's MySQL Acquisition
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| Ever work for a small company that was acquired by a big, legacy technology
| company? Ever work in a nimble organization where decisions were made in an
| instant -- rather than debated in a committee? As a fast-moving Web 2.0
| pioneer, MySQL will need to adjust to Sun's more mature culture. On the flip
| side, Sun will need to maintain the best of MySQL's fast-moving, creative,
| open culture.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/60555-five-questions-facing-sun-micro-s-mysql-acquisition?source=yahoo
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