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Communities Vs. Teams: Open Source Needs Both
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| Some of this thinking arose from talk about
| some of the gloomier prospects for MySQL,
| speculation which goes as far back as Sun's
| purchase of the company. What good is the
| software without the team of people who
| built it? It's difficult to replace the
| synergy you get from such people (and I
| hate that word, but it's really the only
| one that fits) with folks who have been
| largely on the outside looking in.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/11/communities_vs.html;jsessionid=CFNYAJ3CJV3XHQE1GHOSKH4ATMY32JVN
The MySQL question - free or free-market?
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| Is MySQL free in a free-market? With the
| European Commission's ongoing
| investigation, a debate over what makes
| free software free has emerged, ironically,
| centred on how money is made from free
| software.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/features/The-MySQL-question-free-or-free-market-852030.html
The High-Exposure Company
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| A few years ago Sun Microsystems paid $1
| billion for open-source database maker
| MySQL. At the time, Chief Executive
| Jonathan Schwartz justified spending that
| kind of money on the profitless venture for
| the exposure it would give him to millions
| of potential customers and software
| developers around the world. They were the
| kind of people Sun needed to reach in order
| to sell Sun's computer servers, he said,
| and the authenticity Sun gained from being
| so heavily in open source was important in
| winning their loyalty. "We are all media
| companies now," he said.
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http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/13/oracle-mysql-internet-intelligent-technology-api.html
Recent:
Red Hat to work with MySQL regardless of EU
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| Red Hat Inc., the biggest seller of the Linux
| operating system, said it hopes to continue to
| work closely with Sun Microsystems Inc.'s MySQL
| database regardless of the outcome of a
| European Commission antitrust complaint.
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http://www.chinapost.com.tw/business/company-focus/2009/11/13/232618/Red-Hat.htm
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