Uruguay is the Switzerland of South America, in
many ways: when it comes to bank secrets, to the size of the
country, and to the relative cleanliness compared to neighbouring
countries. Uruguay has a similar accent to that of Buenos Aires,
and a highly developed economy with demanding database users.
Like yesterday in Argentina, I could today be part of the MySQL
launch in Uruguay. Following our script from Argentina (meet
press, present to customers, meet individual customers), the
difference in Uruguay is that we mostly work through partners.
The most prominent Sun partner in Uruguay is Arnaldo C. Castro S.A. They hosted our customer event in hotel Cala di Volpe (Giuseppe told me this Italian name means “Bay of Foxes”, and quite like Argentina, Uruguay has plenty of Italian immigrants). I met with plenty of representatives for …
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