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August 2006 - Posts

• Ten Questions with Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL

  http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/08/ten_questions_w_2.html Question: How do you make money with an Open Source product? Answer: We start by not making money at all— but by making users. The vast community of MySQL users and developers is what drives our Read More... Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 10:17 PM by Christof | 3 Comments Filed under: Open Source, MySQL, Silicon Valley

• Happy Birthday, PC!

  25 years ago, in August 1981, IBM released the IBM-PC -- a runaway success that changed and still changes the world unlike few other inventions. Build on open standards with off-the-shelf components (in a very un-IBM manner), the IBM-PC soon brought the Read More... Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 10:39 PM by Christof | 0 Comments Attachment(s): http://a.relaunch.focus.de/img/gen/F/J/HBFJANDaGCZ_Pxgen_r_Ax270.jpg

• Oracle to Announce Own Linux Distro - Based on Red Hat

  Rumors go that Oracle plans to announce the release of its own Linux version tomorrow - based on Red Hat's distro. This is unfriendly to Red Hat yet quite a smart move. While a newcomer would find it difficult to establish a trusted brand competing with Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 8:35 PM by Christof | 1 Comments