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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 business.

Published Friday, August 25, 2006 10:17 PM by Christof

Comments

 

jiangshachina said:

[quote]Most new companies and new projects within existing companies are choosing open source infrastructure such as the LAMP stack. We don’t see competition there.

Mybe "cheaper" is the biggest advantage in open source.
September 2, 2006 2:12 PM
 

Christof said:

I think the biggest benefit of open source is its production model:  it is *user driven*, agile, creates software that is demanded by users rather than pushing packages, that noone has been waiting for, into the market with tons of sales & marketing efforts.
And, of course, this comes down to a higher efficiciency and lower cost/prices.
You'll see few CEOs of $40M companies like my friend Marten at MySQL saying: "users are more important than customers".
Christof
September 2, 2006 9:08 PM
 

jiangshachina said:

[quote]users are more important than customers

As developer, user is the most important,
but as user/customer, price is must be thought about seriously.
Market may be the biggest power (if the product would like to make a great success).
Of course, the both don't conflict with each other.

a cup of Java, cheers!
Sha Jiang
September 4, 2006 12:21 PM
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