I'm an advisor, investor and board member to several
startup software companies including Revolution Computing, Pentaho and most recently Erply a new Software as a Service (SaaS)
company. One of the common threads I look for is the
opportunity to disrupt a large market.
One of the things that made MySQL successful was its use of open source technology to disrupt the multi-billion dollar database market. In Silicon …
[Read more]The future of MySQL. The SCO Group terminates Darl McBride. And more.
The future of MySQL
Monty Widenius urged Oracle to give up on MySQL in order to
land Sun while Richard Stallman, Knowledge Ecology International
(KEI) and the Open Rights Group sent a letter to the
EC urging it to block Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL. All of which
prompted Florian Mueller, who it should be noted is working with
Widenius as part of his campaign, to claim that there is growing public opposition to
Oracle owning Sun’s MySQL.
Meanwhile The VAR Guy reported on rumours that …
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