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[News] MySQL Downloads at About 2 Million a Month and Rising

  • Subject: [News] MySQL Downloads at About 2 Million a Month and Rising
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:15:19 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Freelance
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
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."   
| 
| [...]
| 
| 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

OpenOffice.org is downloaded over 4 million times a month (and also rising).


Related:

Sun does Google's dirty work on MySQL

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| Sun Microsystems will fine tune MySQL for some big-name customers unwilling 
| to get their hands dirty supporting the open source database themselves. 
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/02/29/mysql_sun_google/


A bright future for MySQL

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| MySQL is an example of a disruptive technology. At first, it was too puny for 
| the proprietary databases to notice, and satisfied only small users. But its 
| powers grew, and the size of the companies using it also increased. It cannot 
| match the upper limits of DB2 capability at this point, but it will be 
| interesting to see if and when that day comes. But it doesn’t have to; it is 
| already transforming most of the database market. May Sun invest the money 
| (and employ the open source software developers) to take it to the top.      
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http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/01/17/a-bright-future-for-mysql/


Five Questions Facing Sun Micro's MySQL Acquisition

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| Ever work for a small company that was acquired by a big, legacy technology 
| company? Ever work in a nimble organization where decisions were made in an 
| instant -- rather than debated in a committee? As a fast-moving Web 2.0 
| pioneer, MySQL will need to adjust to Sun's more mature culture. On the flip 
| side, Sun will need to maintain the best of MySQL's fast-moving, creative, 
| open culture.     
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/60555-five-questions-facing-sun-micro-s-mysql-acquisition?source=yahoo

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