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• Open Source Year 2006 In Review

  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... Posted Thursday, December 21, 2006 9:28 AM by Christof | 0 Comments Filed under: Open Source, MySQL, db4objects, Silicon Valley

• MySQL has a Marketing Budget as Large as Oracle!

  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... Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:21 PM by Christof | 2 Comments Filed under: Open Source, MySQL, db4objects, Silicon Valley

• 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

• Closed Source Vendors Spreading FUD

  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... Posted Friday, March 10, 2006 10:46 PM by Christof | 0 Comments Filed under: Open Source, MySQL, db4objects

• Quantifying the cost savings through being open source

  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... Posted Friday, April 22, 2005 1:51 AM by Christof | 0 Comments Filed under: Open Source, MySQL, db4objects, Silicon Valley

• Oracle drops the ball

  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... Posted Thursday, January 27, 2005 2:04 AM by Christof | 0 Comments Filed under: Open Source, MySQL, db4objects, Silicon Valley