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Top 10 Reasons to Choose MySQL for Online Retail
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posted by Oracle MySQL Group on Thu 04 Nov 2010 08:55 UTC
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Retail is an area where MySQL has been very popular for a long time. Leading companies like Zappos, Puma, NET-A-PORTER, Suzuki, Pricer or OKQ8 have selected it for retail applications including Sales Kiosks, Point Of Sales, Electronic Shelf Label systems and Online Stores.

 

According to independent research firm, Forrester Research, Inc. *, Online and Web-influenced in store sales will grow to 53 percent of total retail sales by 2014.

 

The retail sector has indeed undergone a colossal evolution in the past decade as new technologies have offered people greater choice in the way they shop. Winning retailers now adopt Web 2.0 technologies and best practices in order to improve their customers' online experience, cost-effectively create "buzz" about their offerings and boost their revenues.

 

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451 CAOS Links 2009.07.28
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posted by The 451 Group on Tue 28 Jul 2009 18:56 UTC
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Intuit launches open source project. SFLC on Microsoft GPL violation accusations.

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# Intuit launched open source projects and community to develop apps based on its Intuit Partner Platform, while Savio Rodrigues declared Intuit’s open source play is all business.

# SFLC’s Bradley Kuhn told SDTimes Microsoft was in violation of the GPL.

# MySQL and Memcached-based appliance vendor Schooner Info Tech has raised $20m in Series B funding.

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The Inside Story (Java, Microsoft and MySQL)
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posted by Jonathan Schwartz on Thu 13 Nov 2008 07:19 UTC
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As consumer spending slows across the world, a variety of "brick and mortar" retailers are clearly feeling the impact. Foot traffic is slowing, and it's getting harder to balance debt laden real estate portfolios and fickle consumer trends.

For consumer product manufacturers, retail distribution is key - it's how you get in front of a customer. It's why the big PC manufacturers are all working hard to score deals with big retailers (or build their own retail outlets) around the world.

But making money on PC's is tough - for most PC makers, you're remarketing someone else's operating system and someone else's microprocessor - it's not for the faint of heart (or faint of balance sheet). For Sun, our retail distribution concerns don't surround consumer hardware

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