Wgtn firm to power Democrats' website
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| SilverStripe makes money supporting its CMS and providing consultancy for it,
| says Magnusson. “MySQL [an open-source database management system] has sales
| people in every country,” Magnusson explains...
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/4433566a28.html
Open-source MySQL ready for enterprise use--local partner
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| The end-user pays no license fee and instead pays for support and other
| services from partners like Touch Solutions.
|
| Sun Microsystems, meanwhile, recently announced its acquisition of MySQL for
| $1 billion, saying that the open-source database is ready for widespread
| enterprise adoption.
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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20080310-123900/Open-source-MySQL-ready-for-enterprise-use--local-partner
MySQL Co-Founder: Success = Humility + Passion (Not Exit Strategy)
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| Axmark started the work in 1989 in Helsinki, Finland, and was looking for an
| open source database that didn't exist, so they decided to create one, maybe
| scratch out a little cash along the way. It wasn't until 2001 that the
| venture world got involved in MySQL. Axmark hated all of the startup
| drudgery, the contracts that took him weeks to get to because they were
| laborious and distracting.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/03/mysql_cofounder.html
‘Software development business hinges on collaboration’
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| A proponent of FOSS or Free Open Source Software Movement, Green said, “We
| are witness to a changing consumer behaviour and where content generated by
| people is driving the growth of Web 2.0. And software begins and ends with
| developers.”
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http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=14619208
It's like a dam bursting. Databases are already becoming a commodity, unless
some lock-in stands in the way -- for now.
Recent:
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
Can Ballmer pilot Microsoft through a changed tech course?
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| Can Ballmer steer Microsoft out of the roadblocks?
|
| The highly competitive Ballmer, you might say, is the man who cried "nice."
| And like the boy who cried wolf, no one believed him. The software giant's
| attempt to make nice with much of the developer community by opening up its
| APIs for key products was greeted with a jaundiced eye by regulators at the
| powerful European Commission.
|
| However sincere Microsoft's stated change of heart may be, it is becoming
| clearer and clearer that Microsoft -- which knows it has to change -- is
| still struggling to find a fresher path.
|
| What's a poor CEO to do?
|
| Now that Bill Gates has effectively left the building, Ballmer is free to
| transform Microsoft, a job made all the tougher by the enormous reservoir of
| mistrust the company has engendered over the years.
|
| Case in point: the open APIs. Microsoft will give its competitors free access
| to the application programming interfaces and protocols it uses to ensure
| interoperability between its own products, a very significant change in
| business practices.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/tech-bottom-line/archives/2008/02/microsoft_open.html
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