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Why MySQL Grew So Fast
jpkunst writes "Andy Oram, who attended the MySQL Users Conference which was held April 16-18 in Orlando, Florida, attempts to explain MySQL's popularity in his weblog at oreillynet.com. (More weblogs about the 2004 MySQL Users Conference can be found at the The 2004 MySQL User's Conference & Expo Blog Collection.)"
The best things in life are free.
Because Microsoft SQL Server is not competing with yet another database system, they are competing with a new development paradigm. Microsoft SQL Server & Microsoft may have a market cap of half a trillion dollars, but the US economy puts out 12 trillion per year alone. If push comes to shove, it won't matter how big Microsoft SQL Serveris - they will get squished like a bug. I renember when IBM spent billions back in the 80's to push the their database system on the market place to try and squeese out the systems's already out there. It didn't matter how big they were either, they got hammered.
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...and do you know where your www.mysql.com website is, MySQL AB? It is positively unresponsive, and I doubt a slashdotting. Or at least a company that sells something billed as a web backend ought to be able to handle a slashdotting. Yes, the rest of the web is working fine.