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Marten Mickos is now the head of the Database Group at Sun Microsystems I have asked Marten a few questions related to the new strategy of MySQL, now part of Sun Microsystems. See his reply below. RVZ Q1. It appears as if the positioning of MySQL has been refocused more predominately on the Web applications / SaaS / ASP market in the last ...

On Wednesday Jan 16, 2008 Jonathan Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer and President, Sun Microsystems, Inc., announced in his blog that SUN is acquiring MySQL AB. On 26 February 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced it has completed the acquisition of MySQL AB, for approximately $1 billion in total consideration. Kevin Harvey, Chairman of the ...

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 companies have made significant commercial progress and doubled their business, incl. MySQL, ...

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 companies have made significant commercial progress and doubled their business, incl. MySQL, ...

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 (Mozilla) 3. Software is free but if you embed it ...

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 (Mozilla) 3. Software is free but if you embed it ...

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 Press. Abstract: MySQL, an open source software firm, grew from a small $10M in ...

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 Press. Abstract: MySQL, an open source software firm, grew from a small $10M in ...

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 was the fact that $50M MySQL has a larger marketing budget than $15B 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 was the fact that $50M MySQL has a larger marketing budget than $15B Oracle.  ...