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September 2006 - Posts

• China is the next great Internet battleground

  Interesting article on Baidu in the NYT today on the significance of China, which, as the world's fast growing (large) economy, is seen as the next great Internet battleground -- an analysis in line with ours. I'm very happy with the progress we have Read More... Posted Sunday, September 17, 2006 8:29 AM by Christof | 3 Comments Filed under: db4objects, Globalization 3.0, China

• What Differentiates an Open Source Company?

  A good reminder by Tim O'Reilly for managers of open source companies, like myself: Don't forget what differentiates you from the (non-open source) competition. What is your source of a sustainable competitive advantage? I share Tim's concern Read More... Posted Saturday, September 09, 2006 11:39 PM by Christof | 0 Comments Filed under: Open Source, MySQL, db4objects, Silicon Valley

• Communication is free!

  Yesterday, at dinner, I was spinning thoughts with Josh Berkus, lead of PostgreSQL, about how the database industry will look like in 10 years. We agreed that SMB, embedded and SaaS (for database services, too!) will be the growth areas whereas traditional Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 06, 2006 7:30 PM by Christof | 2 Comments Filed under: Silicon Valley, Globalization 3.0