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What I think about technology and business, especially with respect to the world's 'flattener' open source and the advance of object-oriented paradigms in computing, including in databases
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The open source year 2006 is coming to an end. While we often see things moving rather slowly from a day to day perspective, it is quite amazing how massively open source is changing the software industry by looking at the year in review: Open source Read More...
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Marten has compiled a nice list of 13 hybrid business models with open source in this blog : "1. Software is free but we need donations and subsidies to survive (Apache Software Foundation, Eclipse, ObjectWeb) 2. Software is free but we sell ads and placements Read More...
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I have finished the (B) case sequel of the Stanford research papers on MySQL's business model, currently available for Stanford affiliates only on: https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/cases/detail1.asp?Document_ID=2877 and soon also available at Harvard Business Read More...
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Back to Stanford GSB today to attend a class on MySQL, taught by Robert Burgelman, including the (B) case sequel of the already published case I co-authored in 2004. Marten was a class guest, and, as usual, it was big fun. One thought that I took away Read More...
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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...
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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...
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Next act of Innovator's Dilemma at Oracle: Ellison, being quoted in February, that he wants to "embrace" open source, starts off by showing that he doesn't get it in the first place. When asked in the FT interview why he didn't buy open source companies Read More...
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What a beautiful documentation of "Innovator's Dilemma" from Pointbase, unsuccessful makers of an embeddable Java relational database. In an executive whitepaper they try to spread FUD about open source databases. This is really the best marketing for Read More...
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While working up some facts for my ongoing Stanford research on MySQL and open source business models, I realized an interesting timeline. Isn't it quite telling that the February 9 BusinessWeek Scoop about confidential acquisition talks with 3 different Read More...
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Oracle officially comments on attempted MySQL acquisition - from a CIO article : Oracle itself has been acquiring open source vendors in recent months. In February it bought database vendor Sleepycat Software, and last year it bought Finland’s Innobase Read More...
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I got a lot of feedback on my last 2 posts on the imminent Oracle acquisitions of Sleepycat, JBoss and Zend - and their relation to MySQL, a company that I have been observing and researching on for several years now. One thing I really want to get straight Read More...
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Why would Oracle buy Sleepycat. They are not really in the embedded space. Well, they are, but they are laggards with 2% market share. Buying another 2% doesn't really make sense. Oh, hang on. Isn't Berkeley DB inside MySQL? Aren't we repeating the InnoBase Read More...
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Friends know that I'm supporting the thesis that open source is a low cost business model for the software industry, such as Southwest's "no frills" model is for the airline industry. The second part of my argument is, that it is not only about cost savings Read More...
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If you just take a step back from the Peoplesoft/Oracle hubbub that spills the newswires, you might start to see signs of a strategic dissonance in Oracle's position that could perfectly explain its demise in the future. Oracle has been the leader in Read More...
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