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Sun Microsystems "Project Peter" targets Oracle to MySQL migrations to boost sales
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| The PDF file presents an internal
| presentation of Sun Microsystems on
| "Project Peter", a Sun confidential project
| to migrate customers using Oracle onto the
| MySQL database system.
|
| In a statement towards the EU, former CEO
| of MySQL, Marten Mickos, wrote:
|
| MySQL was able to derive significant
| marketing benefit from appearing to
| challenge Oracle, but we penetrated the
| markets faster by, in reality, focusing on
| new, huge opportunities such as Web
| databases. Key to MySQL's success was its
| determined focus on markets that Oracle
| (and others) was ignoring.'[1]
|
| This statement, suggesting that MySQL was
| not directly competing with Oracle,
| contradicts the internal presentation,
| showing that targetting Oracle migrations
| indeed was a big part of MySQL's sales
| strategy.
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https://secure.wikileaks.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems_"Project_Peter"_targets_Oracle_to_MySQL_migrations_to_boost_sales
Sun, Oracle chiefs vow: Sun technologies will live on
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| From Java to the Solaris OS to the Sparc
| CPU platform and Sun storage technologies,
| Oracle will be good for all of them, the
| executives stressed at the San Francisco
| event. As a matter of fact, combining Sun's
| research and development budget with Sun's
| presents "one of the great R&D
| opportunities of all time," McNealy said.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2009/101209-sun-oracle-chiefs-vow-sun.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Full Frame: Views of Oracle OpenWorld
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30252_3-10374502-246.html
Recent:
Marten Mickos: Trust the Mighty MySQL Nation
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| If MySQL were any old database, putting it
| in the same camp as the market leader
| would certainly give pause for thought.
| But MySQL is not any old database: it's a
| free software one, released under the GNU
| GPL. This changes the dynamics
| considerably, as this fascinating letter
| from Mickos to the European Commissioner
| Neelie Kroes eloquently explains.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?RSS&entryid=2580
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