Sun CEO Schwartz Champions Open Source at Web 2.0
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| Schwartz also gave out some numbers pertaining to MySQL. As eWeek notes
| Schwartz is excited by the fact that MySQL gets 70,000 downloads a day onto
| servers and storage devices. Those, of course, are high profit margin
| categories that Sun specializes in.
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http://ostatic.com/160256-blog/sun-ceo-schwartz-champions-open-source-at-web-2-0
Also from the conference.
WordPress founder talks traffic, new features to Web 2.0 crowd
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| You have to hand it to WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. At his talk at
| today's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, he managed to be the first conference
| speaker to put up a picture of a LOLcat while actually tying it into what his
| company is all about.
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http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9928900-2.html
He is actually a *co*-founder. The other half is in Greater Manchester. It's
all GPL.
Recent:
Mera SQL, dil mangey more!
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| Then in 1996 a Swedish startup came up with the idea of creating a data base
| — or Structured Query Language (SQL), you ask questions of your data, any way
| you want — entirely in the Open Source arena.
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| What’s more, it was meant for people to use with Web applications — and it
| would be free.
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| MySQL was born and after 100 million downloads, it is one of the most popular
| Web-centric data base tools in use today.
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http://www.hindu.com/2008/03/16/stories/2008031655781100.htm
MySQL CEO: it's tough for private open source firms
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| "As soon as the deal closed we immediately secured a big deal with a major
| European national police agency," said Mickos, now SVP database products at
| Sun. "Key to them choosing MySQL was that we are now part of a much larger
| public corporation. The deal wouldn't have happened when we were private."
|
| [...]
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| Downloads of the firm's free, open source database have accelerated too, from
| around 50,000 a day before the deal was announced to around 60,000 per day
| now - 67,000 copies were downloaded on Monday.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2008/03/mysql_ceo_its_t.html
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